YouTube doesn't let me watch without turning off my VPN?
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Grayjay is great but I wish it was fully open source
Yeah. Agreed, however in this landscape, I’m not in a hurry to make an enemy of good.
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YouTube won't let me watch this video with my VPN on.
It's ok, YouTube, I don't need the best content, just give me the okay content, it's fine.
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YouTube won't let me watch this video with my VPN on.
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.
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YouTube won't let me watch this video with my VPN on.
Just use one of the FOSS front-ends: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends?tab=readme-ov-file#youtube
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Watching YouTube via tor is kinds dick move lol
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Dude my van has been breaking a ton of websites lately. I had to turn it off to check the tracking on a package from USPS yesterday. Any time a website is sending me to a broken page, I turn off my vpn and it works immediately.
I was going to ask because I’m somewhat new to vpns, but I just assumed it was one hassle for privacy. Is this a new occurrence?
There always have been some sites blocking VPN traffic but it became widespread last 2-3 years.
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No torrent needed, yt-dlp has you covered.
If you happen to be on an IP address Google likes.
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I use MullvadVPN and I almost always encounter this issue.
It probably depends on which server(s) you're using.
Switzerland as an exit Node!
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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 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.
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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!
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
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I use windscribe and I never really have issues.
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YouTube won't let me watch this video with my VPN on.
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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.
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YouTube won't let me watch this video with my VPN on.
FreeTube running over Tor is working for me.
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FreeTube running over Tor is working for me.
can you actually load hd videos through tor these days?
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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.
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Grayjay is great but I wish it was fully open source
I think its better to leave it Closed Source, otherwise, YouTube team will be able to see how it works and how they circumvent their efforts on blocking 3rd party clients.
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Does freetube work on Android TVs?
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YouTube won't let me watch this video with my VPN on.
Fuck YouTube. I deleted it. I can search for videos individually if I want to.
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FreeTube running over Tor is working for me.
