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

    • timmytbt@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months 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
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            2 months 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.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    2 months 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.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I understand using VPN to circumvent region blocking. But for Youtube?

    Aah, for that situation with some US-providers selling user data?

  • TheFriar@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Dude my van has been breaking a ton of websites lately. I had to turn it off to check the tracking on a package from USPS yesterday. Any time a website is sending me to a broken page, I turn off my vpn and it works immediately.

    I was going to ask because I’m somewhat new to vpns, but I just assumed it was one hassle for privacy. Is this a new occurrence?

    • oldfart@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      There always have been some sites blocking VPN traffic but it became widespread last 2-3 years.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Ooh, of all the possibilities I didn’t have that one on my bingo sheet. I guess we’ll be Torrenting YouTubers sooner than later.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        YT-dlp is about an inch away from being wiped out by them. All you need is the gaze of sauron. Forced logon and remove cookies in lieu of browser storage would set us back ages.

        At some point they’re just going to embed the commercials in the video stream or worse yet picture in picture them like broadcast TV did.

  • Steven McTowelie@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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

  • Wolfie@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months 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.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I use MullvadVPN and I almost always encounter this issue.

      It probably depends on which server(s) you’re using.

      • Gangly3090@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        It does, I’ve found Albania, Estonia and Nigeria skip the issue at least. If anyone else got server recommendations that work feel free to drop! I should probably clarify that my Mullvad connection is a barebones Wireguard one running on top of Tailscale

        Sometimes the more commonly used servers like UK start working for a few hours/days but that never lasts. The 3 listed are basically bulletproof in my experience though

        And yea, using a frontend will not bypass this. Unless that frontend is an online downloader like Cobalt.tools or amp4.cc. Or Invidious I guess but that… Has its own issues

        This maybe affects Mullvad so strongly cause they never bother hididng/swapping their server IPs and don’t have a particularly large plethora of them unlike competitors?

    • anarcho_vroom@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I use Mullvad but get a “confirm you’re not a bot by signing in” message occasionally. All I do is switch servers and clear all history/cookies/etc. It works 95% of the time.

  • lemel@lemmy.mlBannedEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yes, definitely a new thing. I see a different message but it is along the lines of I have to sign in so that they know that I am not a bot. A bunch of other websites were already doing this where they work without signing in if you are not on VPN but want you to sign in if you are on VPN.