I recently returned to FCC after quite some time and I recently seen the full stack developer path - which is very interesting. However, at the beginning of the course I watched a few of the lectures about good learning practices, spaced repetition and active recall. After a few videos the next section showed the video but when I clicked play it said “Login to confirm you’re not a bot” and it didn’t show a login button or anything so I went to YouTube website and made sure I’m logged in and when I clicked on “Learn more” in the YouTube embed it turned the video embed blank.
EDIT: I may have found a solution via Stackoverflow; disabling cross-site tracking on Mac OS has been the answer for most embed problems. I’m going to continue the lessons for about ~30 minutes and I’ll report in if it fixed the issue.
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If you still encounter the same issue, you should share screenshots of the problem, or even better a video screen recording to showcase the exact problem/bug you are having.
Absolutely, in any other scenario I would’ve posted an image. In this specific scenario it was just a black box that said “Sign in to confirm you aren’t a bot” and didn’t provide any other information to get around it.
The solution for Mac OS users seems to be disabling ‘cross-site tracking’ in the privacy security settings. Answer found from stackoverflow.
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I encountered the same issue when trying to watch the What are Div Elements lectures. I’m using a Mac running macOS 15.2 in the US. I had the issue with Safari, but not with Firefox. Let me know if there is any additional information I can provide.
I’ve been heavily participating in lectures since this post and disabling the ‘cross-site tracking’ in the safari settings seems to have resolved this issue for the videos wanting you to sign in.
I haven’t tried Firefox but if the issue arises again I will definitely try Firefox instead, thanks for that!
