Likes from logged in views do count, the like to view ratio is higher due to that.
A German YouTuber tested it with an unlisted video, I can’t find it as of now but I do find a lot of deleted videos in my liked ones…
Basic theory as of the time of the video is that they want to go against bot views. Short views did not decline, only long form video, and of those the people with mostly desktop views are hit the most.
Edit: found it!
That’s because you’re logged into an account. And they track and make money from you
It’s not about being logged out. Something about your browser configuration is messed up, or your ip address is blacklisted, giving you frequent captchas.
On a clean browser and IPV4 you get zero captchas without being logged in
No, something about your setup is messed up. Likely they can fingerprint and identity you.
If yeoue IP address were shared by many users and you had a properly configured browser to defeat fingerprinting, then they torture you with captchas to force you to login, so they can profit off of you
I use FreeTube frequently as well