They hate VPNs

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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      1 day ago

      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…