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 3 months ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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utopiah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
moopet@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
Honestly, it’s probably just to enforce IP based bans.
foggianism@lemmy.world 3 months 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 3 months ago
Oh no! I guess I'll just have to keep not using YouTube.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not worth it
gigachad@piefed.social 3 months ago
NewPipe
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
Try pipepipe, haven’t had it blocked ever for the couple yeara I’ve used it
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
The Newpipe community is pretty big so even if it is blocked it is temporary
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Try Tubular, which is NewPipe plus SponsorBlock which makes the video watching experience even better. :)
Lenny@lemmy.zip 3 months 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 3 months ago
Because there is a lor of traffic from the same IP and they get suspicious
Lenny@lemmy.zip 3 months 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 3 months ago
Websites have been able to detect VPN usage for a long time.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
Using Tor right now, no idea what you are talking about… oh right you use that instance.
.world =/= “Lemmy” 😉
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, world is kinda shitty for that
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Change your instance (posted via a VPN)
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
just gotta get a good vpn that knows how to play the dance.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Which one do you suggest?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
i personally use mullvad (for something quick because i love their ethos) and windscribe (paid) for port forwarding
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Revanced ftw.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Why do people still use YouTube if they hate it so much?
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 months 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 3 months ago
Cause there’s nothing else to watch.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I generally don’t use throngs that I hate, regardless.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 months ago
There are literally 0 good alternatives now, my only hope is fairplay (which is now in development)
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 3 months 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 3 months ago
Me: Leave that to me. I know what I want.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Lol, I guess I wont be watching the latest mr beast mukbang
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
TOR?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
💀 Ikr
pir8t0x@ani.social 3 months ago
I guess I’m lucky that this ain’t happening for me at least
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They always could, they’re just more confident these days.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 months 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 3 months ago
Why do people still use YouTube if they hate it so much?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Because all the videos are still there.
If that seems like a self-perpetuating problem, it’s because it is.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
good. fuck VPNs
incompetent@programming.dev 3 months ago
What’s wrong with VPNs for personal use? Serious question; I’ve never seen someone opposed to them.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
people use them to mask their identity and attack others online
discosnails@lemmy.wtf 3 months ago
SystemL@literature.cafe 3 months ago
Welp.
At least nord has some protcol thing that should be able to avoid it
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
Just install Revanced
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 3 months ago
How on iOS?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Really, if you’ve kept using apple all the way up until now, it’s kinda on you.