Dude, I seem to find more sites that break when using my VPN than those that allow it. The bastards are winning
I’ll change servers a couple times, and if it still doesn’t work, I’ll just move on
At this point no corpo site is worth the hassle.
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.good. fuck VPNs (other than for business purposes)
What’s wrong with VPNs for personal use? Serious question; I’ve never seen someone opposed to them.
people use them to mask their identity and attack others online
What’s your real name and address?
Seems like you’re using 1985MustangCobra to mask your identity. We should ban all online usernames and tie everything to a digital Id
that’s not the same, if i was commit a hate crime for example, on this profile, and the police investigated it, they can get my ip address from my client connection. however, someone doing the same and masking their ip address with a VPN to like, i dunno, sweeden but they live in the UK, is a big problem when VPN providers make bold claims of “protecting your identity”
They have tons of legitimate uses
Getting an IP isn’t even enough since the average user has a dynamic IP resolving to a box or center nearby but not yheir actual home address. They’d have to subpeona the ISP, which isn’t necessarily compelled to comply.
Hell, my IP doesnt even resolve to the same city I am in.
Here ips resolve to neighborhoods
You’ll be happy to learn that most don’t protect anything.
That’s one small use case. There are many other legitimate uses for them. Seems a bit odd to be so against them because they might possibly be used for nefarious purposes. Have you personally been victimized by a VPN user?
People do that even more without a VPN.
You sound scared. You don’t have to be online if there is too much risk of you getting your feelings hurt, you can just go touch grass. Even the people you don’t like have a right to privacy.
I think alot of people online need to touch grass.
I think you should probably take your own advice.
i do touch a lot of grass. just cut the lawn today, front and back.
I guess I’m lucky that this ain’t happening for me at least
VPNs aren’t hard to detect, especially if you’re using a major service.
Feel sorry for the guy in the datacenter using Netflix on his brake.
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.
Must be hard to see all the way down in the foot well.
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.
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 will allow YouTube to locate the best content”
They mean slop? Another reason why I still use Newpipe on mobile.
Me: Leave that to me. I know what I want.
It’s time to switch to Newpipe or Invidious, YouTube clients focused on privacy, without adverts and without Google’s clutches.
Been trying out Invidious lately. Nice stuff if it is not down for a reason or two.
Oh! Speaking of a devil. It is down right now!
Yeah, i even made a script just to log into its container (proxmox lxc) and pull the latest image when i see videos cant load.
It’s almost always google actively changing things, sometimes directly targeting invidious.
What did also helped was give its container 2 cpu cores rather than just 1. The internally errors and timeouts causes by google changes cause a big strain on it so it often crashed in combination with needing an update (leaving me unable to backup my up to date subscription list)
I do, Piped for some reason doesn’t load anything for me, even with VPN.
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Oh no! I’ll miss you, Newpipe.
Lol, I guess I wont be watching the latest mr beast mukbang
I’m just going to say it: YouTube really started going to shit when professional, monetized YouTubers started becoming a big thing.
They’ve been able to detect commercial VPNs for a long time. They’re just starting to care enough to take some action now.
I rolled my own VPN, no issues. Won’t say how because I got my ass beat for recommending it last time.
See, there is the problem, if you use a VPN you dont allow Google to locate the best content! Nothing to see here, YouTube is only trying to be helpful here, Google is absolutely not trying to use you as a data nugget to get rich from
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. 🤷♂️
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.
disingenuously sound like they’re doing you a service
That’s the Google guarantee!
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
Because there is a lot of traffic from the same IP and the site get suspicious
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.
Usually ISPs don’t give a unique IP to every user but sometimes they give the same IP to more people, so based on what they did it can happend that you may get limited/banned or have to solve many captchas
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?
