YouTube doesn't let me watch without turning off my VPN?

[Guest]

Yeah, that's why I don't sign in. I mostly just use Freetube.

[Guest]

Huh, I literally can't use YouTube because it always wants me to sign in.

[kusivittula@sopuli.xyz]

it's an absolute pain in the ass with mullvad. only a few servers like ireland, greece and nigeria work.

[electrolisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I get the "sign in to confirm you're not a bot" message on Proton

[Guest]

Huh, I'll keep that in mind. Usually I just say fuck YouTube and go about my business.

[jet@hackertalks.com]

Freetube plus socksv5 proxies on mullvad work the best for me.

[benignintervention@lemmy.world]

I kind of suspect that proton pays a premium to get their IPs whitelisted

[Guest]

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 ?

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

If you are using a Free VPN, the would be A LOT of users using that server, so it looks like a denial of service attack from the server's POV.

Even when I used a paid VPN, I still have to try many servers before there is one that works.

When I used ProtonVPN, it was like 50/50 if it worked or not.

When I switched to Mullvad and now to IVPN, who have much less servers to choose from, I have to try like 7 servers before I found a working one, and so far it's been working fine for like the past week.

Its not a new thing. I've noticed it since last year (when I started using VPNs).

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Proton VPN has much more servers... but there is the CEO controversy... so... ‍️

Pick your poison...

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I think its because they have like 11000 servers, much more than Mullvad or IVPN.

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Straight to Google Re-Education virtual classroom

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I did get that when I was using Proton, but its much less common on Proton

[notfromhere@lemmy.ml]

Are you on Chrome?

[benignintervention@lemmy.world]

This also checks out

[psythik@lemm.ee]

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.

[smoothliquidation@lemmy.world]

A few months back I got adblocker notifications while using UBlock Origin. I did the update and refresh and it would work again.

[Guest]

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.

[neatobuilds@lemmy.today]

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

[tillman@lemmy.world]

They do this at times (depends on content) with my paid vpn (proton)