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

[Guest]

I watch YouTube all the time over Mullvad. It doesn't let me watch on the website without signing in tho.

[commander@lemmy.world]

What VPN? Haven't seen that yet with Proton

[morrowind@lemmy.ml]

Where does the "learn more" go to?

[bluelinebae@midwest.social]

I've had a different but similar issue. I have a VPN I log into so I can remotely access my work computer. If the VPN is on, YouTube won't show me specific content that I know is usually there. It doesn't tell me I can't watch anything or tell me to turn it off, but some content is just missing

[helloroot@lemy.lol]

Try the Freetube or Grayjay client, they work for me with VPN.

[benignintervention@lemmy.world]

I got a sign in prompt over my proton vpn the other day. Refreshed and it was gone

[otter@lemmy.ca]

It could be some AB testing

[goofus@lemmy.today]

Try different locations.

[ohvenus_baby@lemmy.ml]

All you have to do is change severs sometimes a few and refresh. Then it can flag your browser. It's a pain because people get severs blacklisted that and Modern sites like Google and YouTube and others use AI to detect unusual traffic patterns. Sucks but once you find a good server remember the number and use it until it's burned takes some time months even then move on again.

[tehwrapper@lemmy.world]

If your going to sign in you might aswell turn off the vpn

[timmytbt@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[thatguynamedzeus@feddit.org]

swap proxies I have this problem from time to time with mullvad.

[Guest]

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.

[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