YouTube sign in to confirm you're not a bot? keeps popping up constantly
youtube keeps asking me to sign in to confirm i'm not a bot and it's driving me crazy. i'm in the US (arizona) and this started happening about a week ago. every few videos i get hit with a screen that says something like "sign in to confirm you're not a bot" and i have to log into my google account just to keep watching.
the thing is i'm already signed in. like i can see my profile picture in the top right corner, my subscriptions are all there, my watch history is working. but youtube still throws this wall up randomly like it doesn't recognize me lol.
of course tried the obvious stuff first. cleared cookies and cache on chrome, signed out and back in, updated the app on my phone, uninstalled and reinstalled the youtube app. nothing fixed it. the popup still comes back every few hours and youtube still thinks i'm a bot. sometimes i can watch 20 videos fine and then it hits me 3 times in a row.
a friend said he started getting the same thing last month and it went away on its own after about two weeks. but another person online said theirs has been going on for months with no fix.
has anyone figured out an actual fix for this or does it just go away eventually?