YouTube won't let me watch this video with my VPN on. Is this a new thing?
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this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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Ooh, of all the possibilities I didn't have that one on my bingo sheet. I guess we'll be Torrenting YouTubers sooner than later.
No torrent needed, yt-dlp has you covered.
YT-dlp is about an inch away from being wiped out by them. All you need is the gaze of sauron. Forced logon and remove cookies in lieu of browser storage would set us back ages.
At some point they're just going to embed the commercials in the video stream or worse yet picture in picture them like broadcast TV did.
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It could be some AB testing
What VPN? Haven't seen that yet with Proton
I get the "sign in to confirm you're not a bot" message on Proton
Mullvad. It seems like changing the server fixed it.
I did get that when I was using Proton, but its much less common on Proton
swap proxies I have this problem from time to time with mullvad.
Try different locations.
Freetube plus socksv5 proxies on mullvad work the best for me.
I understand using VPN to circumvent region blocking. But for Youtube?
Aah, for that situation with some US-providers selling user data?
there are no ads if you tunnel through albania.
Some regions do have Youtube blocked tho
Are you on Chrome?
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 🤷
Where does the "learn more" go to?
Straight to Google Re-Education virtual classroom