YouTube won’t let me watch this video with my VPN on. Is this a new thing?

    • timmytbt@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      1 month ago

      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.

          • deprecateddino@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 month ago

            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-generator

            Clone 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.

  • archchan@lemmy.ml
    37·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • UltraBudgieZero@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • Retropunk64@lemmy.mlEnglish
    182·
    1 month ago

    I watch YouTube all the time over Mullvad. It doesn’t let me watch on the website without signing in tho.

  • NGC2346@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    1 month ago

    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 ?

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
      61·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        A few months back I got adblocker notifications while using UBlock Origin. I did the update and refresh and it would work again.

  • Wolfie@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 month ago

    It’s ok, YouTube, I don’t need the best content, just give me the okay content, it’s fine.

  • nestle@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    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.

      • nestle@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        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.

  • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
    9·
    1 month ago

    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.