Topic: Issues posting YouTube videos to What's New feed

Anyone else having issues posting links to YouTube videos in their What's New feed?

It worked fine for me up until a couple of months ago, but now all I get are errors from Google about "suspicious traffic" from 'my network'. Rather than getting the video thumbnail and the ability to watch the video, all that appears is the link and an 'apology' from Google; even if you click to go to the link, you get an 'apology page' and a note about suspicious traffic from your network.

Except I know it's not 'my' network. I get this error if I post from the PS4, I get it if I post via my PC, I get it if I post via my PC on a VPN, and I even get it if I post via the PS App using my phone's mobile network.

So even though Google reports your IP address, it would seem that the issue is actually between PSN servers and Google, but I just want to check/be sure if it is affecting anyone else, as I haven't seen mention of it anywhere.

@Paranoimia if you upload directly from your PS4 then it will automatically be added to your Whats new feed, you shouldn't need to do it manually

@FullbringIchigo Video is edited on PC, so that's not an option.

I export to USB, edit on PC, upload to YouTube, and add a link to What's New via the PC web interface. Has always worked fine before, until 2 or 3 months ago.

@Paranoimia you can import video to the PS4 via the share factory app and then upload it from there that should work at least until it's fixed as long as it fits in the time limit that is, which i think is an hour

@FullbringIchigo Not always an option. The time limit isn't an issue, but the file size limit for ShareFactory imports is - you can only have a total of 2GB of files imported, and the video files are often larger than that.

@Paranoimia emm then i'm not sure i'm afraid, perhaps you should contact PlayStation support on the matter

@FullbringIchigo I plan to, I just want to see if others are encountering the same issue.

Incidentally, I just uploaded a very short video directly from my PS4 to YouTube to test things, and that doesn't appear in What's New at all, so it seems the entire thing is borked.

@Paranoimia maybe but you should check back later as it doesn't always update straight away

@FullbringIchigo If you get a chance, can you see what happens when you try it?

Go to YouTube and copy the URL for any video, then paste it into your What's New feed at https://my.playstation.com/whatsnew

You don't need to actually post it, as it should update with a thumbnail preview (if it works) or the error message in the first image above (if it doesn't).

@Paranoimia yeah i got the error message too, must be an issue on someones end, either google or PlayStation

@FullbringIchigo Thanks for confirming.

I've been on to PS support, but after explaining everything to them (even giving them a link to this topic to read), all I got was "have you contacted YouTube about this issue?" - so I'm doing that now.

Bloody irritating, as they need to be talking directly to each other, not through me!