locate the best content
Hell nah, please dont
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?
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 guess I’m lucky that this ain’t happening for me at least
They always could, they’re just more confident these days.
I’m so damn tired of corporations telling me what I can and can’t do.
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
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.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.
[Ending 42/666, The Gulag Ending]
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.
I’m surprised it took so long, I’ve not been able to watch Channel 5 for years.
Anyhow, I love Revanced.
Every time I see people talk YouTube alternatives they complain that Revanced is bad and Newpipe is good.
ReVanced will work almost flawlessly 90% of the time. Newpipe, Freetube, Pipepipe, Invidious, etc. will frequently break and require so much VPN hopping that I barely bother with them. Watching YT on my laptop is a pain in the ass compared to my phone.
Honestly, until late summer ReVanced hadn’t done me wrong at all and I had been using it for about a year, but YT managed to patch whatever loophole they found for YT Music, so I suffered for a month and listened on the regular YT app. It works now, although sometimes I have to VPN hop because it’ll play a song only up to a minute, and then hang.
ReVanced allow you to turn the screen off?
Yes!
For when on desktop just use Firefox +uBlock
ReVanced looks pretty good installed on a desktop Android emulator / VM set to Tablet mode FYI
I’ve never heard anyone say newpipe is good
A bunch in this thread are doing so.
Welp.
At least nord has some protcol thing that should be able to avoid it
(edit: it’s called NordWhisper)
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.
Normally if a website asks me to stop using my VPN I just switch to NordWhisper and it’s fixed.
Switching protocols reconnects you to the VPN. Unless you manually select a default server, even reconnecting to the same country is likely to give you a different IP. 🤷♂️
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.
What about TOR browser?
That’s even easier. The list of exit nodes is public.
Feel sorry for the guy in the datacenter using Netflix on his brake.
Must be hard to see all the way down in the foot well.
using Netflix on his brake.
Offering Xzibit some new ideas
Yo dawg, we heard you like Netflix so we put Netflix on yo brakes so when you brake you can watch Netflix, dawg,
Yo, we heard you like watching Netflix on your break, so we put big screen tvs on your brakes so you can watch Netflix on your brakes while on break.
That seems like a failure on their part. Buy more exit IPs.
There’s a lot more than just recognizing known raw IP addresses used as endpoints.
One method larger services with CDNs use effectively is to use DNS for blocking. When you try to access a site, your DNS request will resolve to a server close to you, with your location determining the domain resolving to a different IP. Then the platform just responds to those requests from outside their normal area with a consistent message. No need to know whether it’s actually a VPN or not, the traffic is acting like it is and doesn’t really have much of a reason to do that normally.
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”?
Why is YouTube blocked?
Free access to “radical” ideas doesn’t bode well with conservative governments.
Authoritarianism.
Probably part of the age verification bullshit
I see. I havent had a Google account for like 8 years, so i didnt notice the difference.
A few days ago I gotta message from google saying they “can’t verify my age” (meaning they want gov ID I’m sure) so I’m forced to use safe search and other stuff too.
Fuck. That!
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.
They said logging in doesn’t make it go away. Being logged in means they can already track you, so this is pretty ridiculous of them tbh.
Being logged in means they can track what you watch. Being logged in via a VPN means they can’t track your location.
Literally valuable information.
I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?
Yes, 100%, absokutely correct.
Google is a company.
Companies do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.
Google is a
companymulti-billion dollar corporation.CompaniesMulti-billion dollar corporations do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.(Well ok, there is plenty of small business who also don’t care about you, that’s not my point).
Trillion*
You can count the number of companies this rich on one hand.
If only you don’t serve ads containing literal porn to my face with my VPN off 😡😡
😮 you use a vpn to avoid porn? That’s a novel use case.
I block porn with my firewall so I have to VPN to get around it.
My state requires an ID to view porn so it’s all blocked for me!
Weeeee
Just hold your driving license up next to your face so we know who’s watching gay porn in a world increasingly intolerant to gay people. No problem there.
Try xvideo
Couldn’t you just use uBlock and/or NextDNS/PiHole to avoid porn ads rather than use a VPN?
This is for the mobile app. I already use uBO on all my browsers.
