I’ve recently “moved” countries! And by that I of course mean the country I exit from online. I’m trying to keep a perma-VPN situation going.
YouTube loaded for me on my computer, where I’m logged in, even through uBlock Origin. But no luck on their locked down phone app, where I’m also logged in. Very weird. Shuffled servers a bit and still nothing. And I’m not talking about sports content which is always super locked down.
Anyone else facing this problem? Has this been the norm for a while in some exit countries? Is this just one of those wait for it to tide over situations that works itself out in the end?
Weirdly it loads shorts just fine.
I wonder at what point it would end up being better to just rent a VPS and wireguard into that.
In case your answer is “Just use Peertube!” my reply is Inshallah I will
I’ve had a VPN on my router for years. Past 2 years have become increasingly difficult. Many websites are blocking them.
I’ve tried many major providers. Now I’m looking at small non profits offering a VPN, hopefully with better results.
Try countries in Southeast Asia and South America. It works fine for me there.
What country did you last have issues with? I’ll try it out. I use Nord for downloading videos, and it seems that YT have flagged every single Dutch and UK IP I try as a potential bot, restricting access completely without being logged in.
There also seems to be a huge issue where YouTube has recently delisted a significant amount of videos - and I don’t mean unlisted or private. I mean they just don’t exist through channels or yt-dlp any more. I think YT is killing creators
I’ve heard from a couple of creators that some of their videos have just disappeared. Few will say much, and none on record, so I think Google is threatening them somehow. Note, the videos I watch on YT are not political or controversial in any way.
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This thing is so good, we don’t speak about it.
Try something like a Revanced patch for your youtube client on your phone if you haven’t already - mine’s been chugging along with a VPN for ages
In my experience, Youtube is pretty on their VPN exit node blocking game (but it definitely times out, if you wait a month, you may well see one work again for a while). If you want to VPN youtube, you’re best off using a provider with a LOT of exit nodes that come and go.
And, if your trying to get around geo fencing, one that doesn’t openly share their IP ranges.
The free Proton VPN servers have been getting hit for like 3 months now. And they’re constantly changing what free server is available to use. The American servers have been shut down plenty of times, but the ones in other parts of the world are working fine, though slower to connect.
if you get youtube premium it should work fine 😬
if they did not change it
on your phone, does it also not work in browser if you are logged in?
Thing is, even with how bafflingly evil Google is, the one corporate service I could see myself paying for is the YouTube subscription. I use the phone app a lot, it would make sense for me.
The problem is that they’re notoriously ban-happy with paying VPN users, due to some of them using their exit countries to pay less for a service. Thing is, if I tried to pay for premium from a country I’d exit from, I’d be paying more compared to where I am. I’m perfectly content overpaying slightly for a few things online with this situation, I don’t buy much, I’m fine. I also don’t know where the line is. If I pay for my account with a card from my IRL location, using the pricing for said location, will I get my account suspended after I jump back on the VPN? It’s not like they’ll publicly announce a clear breakdown of what is and isn’t okay.
Google knowing I use a public VPN on Google services is not an issue for me. I don’t do anything sketchy, I really just want an uncensored internet out of the eye of my ISP.
I can not garantuee you anything, and it could be possible that things just changed in the last months. But i think until atleast around march i had been using youtube premium + mullvad without any problems. But the vpn was set to the country i live in… (i then switched to newpipe and no vpn for youtube)
Imagine paying them because they are so greedy they won’t allow you to protect your privacy.
Crazy shit!
