That's funny. I was recently scraping tens of thousands of YouTube videos with yt-dlp. I would encounter throttling of some kind where yt-dlp stopped working, but I'd just spin a new VPS up and the throttled VPS down when that happened. The throttling effort cost me ~1 hour of writing the logic to handle it.
I say that's funny because my guess would be they want to block larger scale scraping efforts like mine, but completely failed, while they attempt at throttling puts captchas in front of legitimate users.
I say that's funny because my guess would be they want to block larger scale scraping efforts like mine, but completely failed, while they attempt at throttling puts captchas in front of legitimate users.