I just got this for the first time in my usual Firefox browser
, trying to play the YouTube embed of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHvOYbqU4gQ
in this post - News & Gossip VII: For Blood and Headlines - #220 by Mikey
The text:
Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it’s really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen?
This page appears when Google automatically detects requests coming from your computer network which appear to be in violation of the Terms of Service. The block will expire shortly after those requests stop. In the meantime, solving the above CAPTCHA will let you continue to use our services.
This traffic may have been sent by malicious software, a browser plug-in, or a script that sends automated requests. If you share your network connection, ask your administrator for help — a different computer using the same IP address may be responsible. Learn more
Sometimes you may be asked to solve the CAPTCHA if you are using advanced terms that robots are known to use, or sending requests very quickly.
The Learn More page says
What Google considers automated traffic
- Sending searches from a robot, computer program, automated service, or search scraper
- Using software that sends searches to Google to see how a website or webpage ranks on Google
It showed my correct IPv6. I am signed into Google/YouTube and editing videos on the YouTube Studio site, which is what I’m usually doing.
Edit: Oh hm I’m getting this on another site with YT embeds too. Well. Perhaps Google are having a bit of a thing.