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Any IP on the local ISP requires a google login to work. Very few work without the cookie generated from it.
Weird. I haven't downloaded anything for a month or so (other than running into a different issue on somesomething), but I haven't had to do that for any video for the several years I've been downloading.
Is this maybe much more common on common VPN IPs? Not what I think you meant by "local ISP", but would make a lot more sense to me.
It is definitely more common on VPN IPs, since Google likely identifies the outgoing address as a datacentre, and gets suspicious. I've had multiple issues with the bot sign-in screen when using a VPN for it, whereas not using a VPN doesn't have those problems.