YouTube won’t let me watch this video with my VPN on. Is this a new thing?
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I like how they make up a phony benefit to try to make it seem like you’ll get something out of it.
The corporations always do at the moment
I use MullvadVPN and i have never encountered this issue before. Hopefully won’t need to either.
I’ll tell you another weird detail I found out today… A lot if my coworkers had their uBlock terminated by the chrome browser. I use Ubuntu with chromium because reasons and somehow, my uBlock is still active and working o.o it has not been terminated and I still get rid of those nasty YouTube ads.
I use MullvadVPN and I almost always encounter this issue.
It probably depends on which server(s) you’re using.
It does, I’ve found Albania, Estonia and Nigeria skip the issue at least. If anyone else got server recommendations that work feel free to drop! I should probably clarify that my Mullvad connection is a barebones Wireguard one running on top of Tailscale
Sometimes the more commonly used servers like UK start working for a few hours/days but that never lasts. The 3 listed are basically bulletproof in my experience though
And yea, using a frontend will not bypass this. Unless that frontend is an online downloader like Cobalt.tools or amp4.cc. Or Invidious I guess but that… Has its own issues
This maybe affects Mullvad so strongly cause they never bother hididng/swapping their server IPs and don’t have a particularly large plethora of them unlike competitors?
Switzerland as an exit Node!
I use Mullvad but get a “confirm you’re not a bot by signing in” message occasionally. All I do is switch servers and clear all history/cookies/etc. It works 95% of the time.
FreeTube my beloved!!
Does freetube work on Android TVs?
Probably not, but I’d try LibreTube
I can’t see why an android app isn’t feasible. I got the last pipe bender working in my tv. But it’s not quite as polished as free tube
Fuck YouTube. I deleted it. I can search for videos individually if I want to.
Makes sense for a corpo like Google, ditch it and use Odysee or use another client like FreeTube or Piped. Piped doesn’t like my connecting via Tor but’s that’s alright I guess.
Watching YouTube via tor is kinds dick move lol
True, contribute! I usually just use MullvadVPN+Mullvad Browser for that. I always recommend running a Tor node if you use Tor at all, but eh.
I find if I use my VPN and I’m not logged in, it says I can’t watch unless I log in. If I turn it off, it works. I think if you’re logged in, they can track you and monetize you. If you’re behind a VPN and they also don’t know who you are, they want to push you into telling them who you are.
What I’ve found as a workaround is to search videos using Duck Duck Go. It has a way you can watch YouTube stuff through DDG without being logged in. I imagine they’ll eventually figure out a way to patch that.
Ya so users like say @[email protected] and surely MANY others who don’t get nagged…
Wondered “what if some of us are browser fingerprinted so good they/their advertisers know we’re us, not bots, and pretend to let us stay anonymous” :(
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I’ve been paying for Proton VPN for a couple years now and I’ve never been blocked by YouTube.
I’m also using uBlock Origin and Firefox as a browser. YouTube takes like 5-10 seconds to load videos, thanks to their built-in delay timer when ads can’t play, but otherwise it works fine.
Honestly, I’d gladly wait 30 seconds staring at a black screen than watch a 10-second ad. So their delay timer is pointless.
I use windscribe and I never really have issues.
But I had little issues with windscribe Proton is better
Proton always works for me. I use it to get around geo blocking.
Only criminals use VPNs. Well known fact.
I watch YouTube all the time over Mullvad. It doesn’t let me watch on the website without signing in tho.
If your going to sign in you might aswell turn off the vpn
Yeah, that’s why I don’t sign in. 😂 I mostly just use Freetube.
I got a sign in prompt over my proton vpn the other day. Refreshed and it was gone
Huh, I literally can’t use YouTube because it always wants me to sign in.
I kind of suspect that proton pays a premium to get their IPs whitelisted
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This also checks out
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I use Proton for email. Don’t love the CEOs opinions, so not really interesting in expanding their services. Sticking with the email for now, but we’ll see what the future holds.
I got that same prompt in my house ip now, can’t use youtube on my TV or anything, I guess it detected my plex server downloading videos since I usually watch from there
Lmao, sounds about right. YouTube is cancer, but unfortunately they have a monopoly.
it’s an absolute pain in the ass with mullvad. only a few servers like ireland, greece and nigeria work.
Huh, I’ll keep that in mind. Usually I just say fuck YouTube and go about my business. 😂
Try the Freetube or Grayjay client, they work for me with VPN.
Depends in the VPN. I’m having to use multi-hop now with Freetube but with that turned on it is working consistently for me again.
I spun up my own invidious container and that has made my connection far more consistent.
Ay any tips?
You can run it as a docker, pretty easily.
Run this to generate your visitor_data and po_token
docker run quay.io/invidious/youtube-trusted-session-generatorClone the repo in link below (step 2) and paste those values into your docker_compose.yml file in the appropriate fields. Also, generate a nice long string for the hmac_key
https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker-compose-method-production
This does give you an “identity” with YouTube, but you can generate new tokens as often as you want, replace them in your yml, and restart the container.
Once the container is running, update FreeTube settings abs change the “current invidious instanc” to http://localhost:3000/
Let me know if you get stuck.
I dont understand why this happens to people along with “adblocker detected” and i’ve never had any of these issues on VPN with adblocks… is this something proper to the US or something ?
Don’t have this issue in the US. I blame crappy adblockers/VPNs. UBlock Origin and Mullvad are what you need. Adguard DNS for apps that don’t have extension support.
A few months back I got adblocker notifications while using UBlock Origin. I did the update and refresh and it would work again.
What?
They’re killing third-party client access, limiting adblockers, blocking VPNs, and forcing sign in more and more. I sincerely hate it but this was inevitable. They have their monopoly, this is just the “abuse that position and enshittify for more data and money” stage. I hope an alternative takes off because I refuse to play by their rules.
The day the finally kill adblockers and third party clients I’ll stop watching and I started to think I won’t miss it at all after barely open it in a week.
Agreed. I hate the direction this is going towards but I’ll just find other avenues.
They do this at times (depends on content) with my paid vpn (proton)
It’s ok, YouTube, I don’t need the best content, just give me the okay content, it’s fine.
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