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A screenshot of a YouTube video embedded in a news article where YouTube is throwing the error “Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps protect our community.” Stitched below is a screen grab from Avengers Endgame where Captain America says, “no, I don't think I will.”

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[–] anas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven’t seen this live, but “to confirm you’re not a bot” really doesn’t sound like language YouTube would use

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I think its brevity and down to earth, no nonsense message, easily interpretable by the normies, is why it won out in Alphabet’s endless discussions and revisions. (Everything there goes through like eight managers right?)