I'm so damn tired of corporations telling me what I can and can't do.
You will definitely get the best content in the countries where YouTube is blocked /s
"In order to enhance your viewing experience, we've sold your data to your government"
The man sighs as he read the text on his computer screen, as loud knocking is heard on his apartment door. He looks through the peephole, there are men with uniforms outside.
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Listen at this point, we either re-upload our favorite creator's content to other platforms. Convince them to join alternatives or help out *their replacements" on those alternative platforms to grow.
Either way I do not respect content-creators that do not support alternative platforms (& decentralization) on principle
I vote for all of what you said
Listen at this point, we either re-upload our favorite creator’s content to other platforms. Convince them to join alternatives or help out their replacements on thise alternative platforms to grow.
I am with this, tired of using a yt frontend to watch videos (sometimes real website), and no reuploads nor have alternatives.
"This will allow Youtube to locate the best content" 🤡
It's so insulting they add flavour text like this as if to call you a fucking moron to your face
“We know what’s best for you”
But I don't want the best content.
I want the old YouTube
I mean... detecting (some) VPNs is as trivial as
fetch('https://github.com/NazgulCoder/IPLists/raw/refs/heads/main/output/vpn-ipv4.txt').then( res => res.text() ).then( res => console.log( res.includes( "1.2.3.4" ) ) )
thanks to https://github.com/NazgulCoder/IPLists/
FWIW though I did try, connected via a random VPN from ProtonVPN from Argentina... and it wasn't in that list. So it's not perfect. Also ProtonVPN has apparently today 13K servers according to https://protonvpn.com/vpn-servers
That being said I can imagine that Google, which is literally built on crawling the Web, has all the infrastructure and expertise needed to have such lists and up to date ones.
I'm not justifying blocking VPN here, only trying to clarify that unless you self-host in a rather specific setup (i.e. not relying a popular cloud provider but truly self hosting) it's technically not hard to block VPNs.
Understanding is the first step to fighting draconian policies.
Yeah, detecting the VPN isn’t really difficult at all. VPN providers sometimes try to cycle through IP addresses to make it harder, but there’s only so much they can do.
This isn’t really noteworthy, especially when you consider how many services require a sign in when you’re on a VPN anyways. It’s shitty, but not really surprising; They want to be able to tie your traffic to you, not just to a random VPN server. Hell, even without signing in, they probably have your browser fingerprinted. If you’re privacy focused, you probably have a lot of privacy based extensions, in a privacy based browser. And that makes you easy to fingerprint.
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
This will allow Youtube to locate ~~the best content~~ and spy on you more easily
FTFY
VPNs aren't hard to detect, especially if you're using a major service.
100% this, I work in cyber sec and it's very easy these days for services to detect this.
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.
When I see content blocks like that anymore, I just leave the content behind and go elsewhere. Malicious companies will not get my clicks. They can fuck right off.
Good sign though, means they are getting desperate. It is our duty to starve them of traffic.
It's time to switch to Newpipe or Invidious, YouTube clients focused on privacy, without adverts and without Google's clutches.
newpipe won't work for much longer. Google is mandating android apps be signed by them, and you can sure as shit bet that newpipe, which eats into their profits, ain't gonna get signed
Oh no! I'll miss you, Newpipe.
The real highlight is the contradictory text.
To continue, turn off your VPN/Proxy. This will allow YouTube to locate the best content".
"We refuse to serve you anything other than the best 'located content'."
A fat lie. Combining refusal with the completely unrelated supposed service improvement of location-based content. To disingenuously sound like they're doing you a service.
Oh, so what they’re really saying is that a platform owned by GOOGLE has trouble FINDING the best content?
Everyone knows.
If you find what you're looking for the first time, they can't serve you as many ads.
This isnt new. Its been happening for years. There is a post about this on lemmy every few weeks. It just doesnt happen consistently, so people always think that they "discovered" this for the first time.
But this is even dumber than before, you can't even login to bypass. What about people living in a country where youtube is blocked. I guess Google just says "fuck 'em"?
What about people living in a country where youtube is blocked. I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?
Yyep.
If you're using a VPN, you're likely anonymized and not directly making YouTube any money. Those are leeches, as far as a Google accountant is concerned.
The "best content" being ip-located ads, probably.
I encounter VPN blocks everywhere frequently. I usually just reroll my selected server until the block goes away
youtube sucks ever since googol bought it. I cannot believe people still use it.
Google bought YouTube in like 2006. I liked it before they bought it, sure, but I would be hard pressed to say it’s been all downhill after the first year.
My ISP has started throttling YouTube to ~2mbps when viewed from desktop. Using a VPN gets around this and lets me watch in HD. Luckily I've not encountered this error yet, but if I do I guess it's no more YouTube for me, 480p is just way too blurry to put up with.
VPN ads seriously need to stop promising that you can get around content restrictions.
People should educate others on how to get content not available in their area for free without the hassle.
If media isn't available in your area, then the company is telling you they don't want your money. There is a $0.00 loss to them if you pirate it.
Well, they need to make sure the right people are watching the right propaganda.
I have a Tridactyl rule to rewrite YouTube URL to youtube-local (repository https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local/ ) e.g. https://www.youtube.com/ becomes http://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.
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.
This happens via simple lists of IP addresses, no? I.e. the VPN has a limited number of exit IPs and once it's known who they belong to, they're easy to block?
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.
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.
Not to defend that shithole, but honestly, it's probably just to enforce IP based bans.
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.
As someone who uses multiple VPNs daily I have a suggestion. Try to locate a different server and connect to it. See if there’s a drop down menu in your VPN app. Sometimes a particular IP on one of those servers flags websites’ fraud detection. Sometimes I can switch servers on my VPN and refresh the page and it loads just fine.
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