YouTube won’t let me watch this video with my VPN on. Is this a new thing?
Only criminals use VPNs. Well known fact.
Likely depends on your VPN. I use Proton and it’s fine.
Proton + Ghostery wombo combo should still work for now for ad blocking and VPN.
FreeTube running over Tor is working for me.
I keep getting errors on FreeTube on Linux.
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.
Fuck YouTube. I deleted it. I can search for videos individually if I want to.
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.
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
FreeTube my beloved!!
Does freetube work on Android TVs?
Probably not, but I’d try LibreTube
I can’t see why an android app isn’t feasible. I got the last pipe bender working in my tv. But it’s not quite as polished as free tube
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.
It’s ok, YouTube, I don’t need the best content, just give me the okay content, it’s fine.
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.
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.
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.
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
I watch YouTube all the time over Mullvad. It doesn’t let me watch on the website without signing in tho.
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. 😂
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 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
Lmao, sounds about right. YouTube is cancer, but unfortunately they have a monopoly.
