Like they literally refuse to send the video packets until you do the captcha (or in worse cases, force a log in). There is no magic app that bypass it. You can work around the ads, you can’t work around a log-in/captcha wall.
Have you tried going through an invidious instance? Freetube does that so I don’t think the VPN is really necessary. You are already accessing YT through a proxy of sort with invidious.
As long as YT bans lists of VPN IPs there is no point in complaining about it. Either find a VPN that is not blocked or go the Invidious route but there isn’t many approach…
I think alternative clients meet the same fate:
This is Newpipe (latest version):
(I hid the video title for privacy reasons)
Like they literally refuse to send the video packets until you do the captcha (or in worse cases, force a log in). There is no magic app that bypass it. You can work around the ads, you can’t work around a log-in/captcha wall.
Wait, newpipe works for me (I’m from Greece if that matters). Running version 0.27.6
Have you tried going through an invidious instance? Freetube does that so I don’t think the VPN is really necessary. You are already accessing YT through a proxy of sort with invidious.
As long as YT bans lists of VPN IPs there is no point in complaining about it. Either find a VPN that is not blocked or go the Invidious route but there isn’t many approach…