YouTube won’t let me watch this video with my VPN on. Is this a new thing?
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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.
Agreed. I hate the direction this is going towards but I’ll just find other avenues.
FreeTube my beloved!!
Does freetube work on Android TVs?
Probably not, but I’d try LibreTube
FreeTube running over Tor is working for me.
can you actually load hd videos through tor these days?
Yes. Ive managed to watch 4K 60fps HDR content from YouTube over Tor without hiccups.
I keep getting errors on FreeTube on Linux.
Only criminals use VPNs. Well known fact.
Likely depends on your VPN. I use Proton and it’s fine.
Fuck YouTube. I deleted it. I can search for videos individually if I want to.
Proton + Ghostery wombo combo should still work for now for ad blocking and VPN.
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.
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.
Watching YouTube via tor is kinds dick move lol
True, contribute! I usually just use MullvadVPN+Mullvad Browser for that. I always recommend running a Tor node if you use Tor at all, but eh.
Freetube plus socksv5 proxies on mullvad work the best for me.
Where does the “learn more” go to?
Straight to Google Re-Education virtual classroom
I watch YouTube all the time over Mullvad. It doesn’t let me watch on the website without signing in tho.
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
I think its because they have like 11000 servers, much more than Mullvad or IVPN.
Proton VPN has much more servers… and you are much less likely to get flagged… but there is the CEO controversy… so… 🤷♂️
Pick your poison… 👀
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 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.
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. 😂
What VPN? Haven’t seen that yet with Proton
I get the “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message on Proton
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.
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
