YouTube won’t let me watch this video with my VPN on. Is this a new thing?
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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.
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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.
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 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
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.
Try a less popular VPN server by your provider. Sometimes I have to use Uzbekistan to get Reddit and other sites to allow me on
Only criminals use VPNs. Well known fact.
It could be some AB testing
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. They are trying really hard to dox all users and make it hard for privacy minded folk.
Fuck YouTube. I deleted it. I can search for videos individually if I want to.
I watch YouTube all the time over Mullvad. It doesn’t let me watch on the website without signing in tho.
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. 😂
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
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.
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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 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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Try different locations.
It’s a relatively new thing. i was watching YT for years with Mullvad with no issues then late last year started getting blocked. Right now I can only watch on either NewPipe or on the official web client while logged in.
Are you on Chrome?
Freetube plus socksv5 proxies on mullvad work the best for me.
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 ?
What?
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.
