Youtube seems to have also started more aggressively pushing against accessing videos from outside of their app on mobile.

In the last few days all of the iPads at the school I work at have begun showing the following error when attempting to open YouTube links in safari:

"Sorry for the interruption.

You are seeing this message because your current network has been identified as using non-authorized applications to access YouTube."

The only way I've found around it is to use their app, or solve the reCAPTCHA puzzle every time.

Some actual competition in this space would be wonderful.