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

[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

[ngc2346@sh.itjust.works]

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).