I have a Tridactyl rule to rewrite YouTube URL to youtube-local (repository github.com/user234683/youtube-local/ ) e.g. www.youtube.com becomes localhost:9999/https://www.youtube.com but as others have suggested, I do my bet to avoid YouTube entirely, because Google is bad, Big Tech is bad.
Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?
Submitted 1 month ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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utopiah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Tip: Peertube Companion is a good extension for directing you to duplicates of the video you’re trying to watch if it can be found elsewhere.
canofcam@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Everything detects VPNs. Reddit has an error screen I’ve never seen before about network activity when I use a VPN and I’m not logged in. YouTube refuses to let me watch embedded videos when I’m on my VPN. Many pages simply refuse to load.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Reddit?! Okay, that’s pretty terrible. It’s one thing to have region-locked copyright for stuff, but disallowing VPNs for a web forum? While we don’t need more evidence that they’ve turned heel, that’s an awful big red flag.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Honestly, it’s probably just to enforce IP based bans.
foggianism@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I watched youtube religously 10-15 years ago. Now when I try to enjoy some content, I struggle to find anything of quality that’s in my feed. Sometimes I’m scrolling for 10 minutes and give up. Their algorithm for what might interest me was so much better back then.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 month ago
Oh no! I guess I'll just have to keep not using YouTube.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not worth it
gigachad@piefed.social 1 month ago
NewPipe
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Honestly, Newpipe gets blocked more often than just using browser. Probably because of they detected API calls or something.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 month ago
I don’t think NewPipe uses yt’s API. yt-dlp certainly doesn’t. It’s kinda the whole point of these alternative frontends.
Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Try pipepipe, haven’t had it blocked ever for the couple yeara I’ve used it
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The Newpipe community is pretty big so even if it is blocked it is temporary
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Try Tubular, which is NewPipe plus SponsorBlock which makes the video watching experience even better. :)
Lenny@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Lately while on VPN I’m able to watch videos and sometime have to solve a captcha to prove I’m not a bot, but if I’m using nothing (at home on WiFi) it’ll ask me to sign in to make sure I’m not a bot 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️… Like wtf
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 month ago
Because there is a lor of traffic from the same IP and they get suspicious
Lenny@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, so I understand why I have to solve a captcha when using VPN, but I literally (at times) cannot use YT ‘anonymously’ from my residential IP without signing in to an account.
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Websites have been able to detect VPN usage for a long time.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 month ago
That’s probably not too hard to detect based on IP. They only do it for some content though. The only content I watch that has this block is official Formula 1 content on YouTube. It’s probably something that creators can enable when they want to region lock content or something
tym@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love that this complaint is posted to Lemmy: a platform that forces me to pause my VPN to make a comment.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Using Tor right now, no idea what you are talking about… oh right you use that instance.
.world =/= “Lemmy” 😉
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, world is kinda shitty for that
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Change your instance (posted via a VPN)
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
just gotta get a good vpn that knows how to play the dance.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Which one do you suggest?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
i personally use mullvad (for something quick because i love their ethos) and windscribe (paid) for port forwarding
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Revanced ftw.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Why do people still use YouTube if they hate it so much?
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 month ago
There aren’t really any alternatives.
I’m ok with YouTube due to using strong ad-blockers, browser extensions, and I don’t log in. Seems that these 3 things cut most of the bullshit.
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Cause there’s nothing else to watch.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I generally don’t use throngs that I hate, regardless.
skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Rabbit ears are cheap and don’t need internet. PlutoTV, Samsung TV, Roku TV all exist. So many free choices.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 month ago
There are literally 0 good alternatives now, my only hope is fairplay (which is now in development)
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
A lack of alternatives is not an excuse to continue using something you don’t like. I honestly don’t get the culture around all the YouTube hate.
I don’t use shit that I don’t like. I don’t support things that I don’t agree with the practices of. YouTube treats its users and creators like shit. Know what?
They’ll continue to do so as long as people keep using their platform. That’s how it goes. It’s not going to change. And every workaround that is created, will get squashed.
People that are always complaining about it, and then continuing to use it just blows my mind. I’ll never understand it- even when people try and justify it. And that there are no alternatives basically just says that you’re willing to eat whatever shit they serve you, so long as you get your fix.
It’s an addiction at this point. You’re willfully enduring shit you hate so you can have moments of shit you enjoy.
mwalimu@baraza.africa 1 month ago
Me: Leave that to me. I know what I want.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lol, I guess I wont be watching the latest mr beast mukbang
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I’m just going to say it: YouTube really started going to shit when professional, monetized YouTubers started becoming a big thing.
sraars@iamaghast.com 1 month ago
I'd like to see folks do more PeerTube instances in the future or something similar grow but there is cost involved that people don't have with YouTube.
chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
They’ve been able to detect commercial VPNs for a long time. They’re just starting to care enough to take some action now.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I rolled my own VPN, no issues. Won’t say how because I got my ass beat for recommending it last time.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 month ago
I currently watch YouTube with the Wcosia browser on my phone and have barely gotten any ads since I started using it for this purpose. I dunno why it is like this. I think I have gotten one ad in months and all I had to do was refresh the browser and it went away.
Used to use DuckDuckGo and their video player which also works fine. No ads.
It probably won’t last forever. YouTube seems hellbend on becoming AdTube, but for now, this is a fine alternative. I dunno how watching YouTube works with ecosia on the computer, if there are ads there, but on the phone, nothing.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TOR?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Brb, gonna change the circuit 20 times to find that one exit IP that didn’t get blocked.
Also waiting 10 minutes for the video to load, xD
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 month ago
I think you can change some config thing to have the exit node be in a certain country so it may help? (Thought i am not sure if there is, the last time i configurated anything was for using HTTP), also, i have had a good expirience with the speed on TOR, i am in europe, where are you?
Nyxias@fedia.io 1 month ago
What kind of content? The ones with fake thumbnails, red/yellow arrows and circles and exaggerated faces that look like the creator is about to suck down the biggest dick they've come to know?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
💀 Ikr
pir8t0x@ani.social 1 month ago
I guess I’m lucky that this ain’t happening for me at least
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They always could, they’re just more confident these days.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I needed to fiddle around with YouTube a lot, so it won’t try to shove mediocre Pewdiepie clones but Hungarian (or more recently, Hungarian chud slop) down my throat.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Why do people still use YouTube if they hate it so much?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Because all the videos are still there.
If that seems like a self-perpetuating problem, it’s because it is.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
good. fuck VPNs
incompetent@programming.dev 1 month ago
What’s wrong with VPNs for personal use? Serious question; I’ve never seen someone opposed to them.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
people use them to mask their identity and attack others online
discosnails@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
SystemL@literature.cafe 1 month ago
Welp.
At least nord has some protcol thing that should be able to avoid it
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 month ago
No, NordWhisper is for people to connect to the VPN, not for the VPN to connect to youtube. It’s all about what IP’s Google knows are VPN’s. If you’re blocked, switch server or country and try your luck.
SystemL@literature.cafe 1 month ago
Normally if a website asks me to stop using my VPN I just switch to NordWhisper and it’s fixed.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
Just install Revanced
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 1 month ago
How on iOS?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Really, if you’ve kept using apple all the way up until now, it’s kinda on you.