'Re: [Outages-discussion] YouTube rate limit messages ... on AT&T cellular?'

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Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] YouTube rate limit messages ... on AT&T cellular?
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink ! com>
Date: 2021-01-26 13:49:30
Message-ID: 63B14999-6B6C-476F-8D63-3739255E46CF () baylink ! com
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It seems to me that I have gotten that message maybe once or twice while I was at the \
college campus I work at, where, presumably, the entire campus is NATted out to ipv4.

On January 26, 2021 12:53:17 AM EST, "Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)" \
<Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com> wrote:
> In the last few weeks I have randomly received interstitial captcha's
> when viewing YouTube videos while connected to AT&T cellular.  It
> happened as recently as this afternoon.  
> 
> I live in Los Angeles.  The appearances of these messages to a single
> device on a public network is odd, and I would never expect YouTube to
> throttle views coming from a major carrier unless there is some
> shenanigans happening behind the scenes.
> 
> My phone is not connected to a VPN client either.  This was straight to
> the Internet.
> 
> I tried attaching a screenshot earlier, but the mailing list has an
> attachment size limit of 256KB.  The message says:
> 
> > "Sorry for the interruption.  We have received a large volume of
> requests from your network.  To continue your YouTube experience,
> please fill out the form below:"
> > 
> > [   ] I am not a robot.
> 
> Can anyone from a major carrier or from Google comment on why this
> might be happening more frequently, or is it possible that it happens
> to certain subnets of devices from time to time?
> 
> 
> —Sent from my iPhone
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<html><head></head><body>It seems to me that I have gotten that message maybe once or \
twice while I was at the college campus I work at, where, presumably, the entire \
campus is NATted out to ipv4. <div class="gmail_quote">On January 26, 2021 \
12:53:17 AM EST, "Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)" &lt;Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com&gt; \
wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: \
1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre class="k9mail">In the last \
few weeks I have randomly received interstitial captcha's when viewing YouTube videos \
while connected to AT&amp;T cellular. It happened as recently as this afternoon. \
 I live in Los Angeles. The appearances of these messages to a single device \
on a public network is odd, and I would never expect YouTube to throttle views coming \
from a major carrier unless there is some shenanigans happening behind the \
scenes. My phone is not connected to a VPN client either. This was straight \
to the Internet. I tried attaching a screenshot earlier, but the mailing list \
has an attachment size limit of 256KB. The message says: <blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; \
padding-left: 1ex;">"Sorry for the interruption. We have received a large volume of \
requests from your network. To continue your YouTube experience, please fill out the \
form below:" [ ] I am not a robot. </blockquote> Can anyone from a \
major carrier or from Google comment on why this might be happening more frequently, \
or is it possible that it happens to certain subnets of devices from time to \
time? —Sent from my iPhone<hr>Outages-discussion mailing \
list Outages-discussion@outages.org <a \
href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion</a> </pre></blockquote></div> -- \
 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my \
brevity.</body></html>

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