YouTube won’t let me watch this video with my VPN on. Is this a new thing?

  • Wolfie@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    I use MullvadVPN and i have never encountered this issue before. Hopefully won’t need to either.

    I’ll tell you another weird detail I found out today… A lot if my coworkers had their uBlock terminated by the chrome browser. I use Ubuntu with chromium because reasons and somehow, my uBlock is still active and working o.o it has not been terminated and I still get rid of those nasty YouTube ads.

    • anarcho_vroom@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      I use Mullvad but get a “confirm you’re not a bot by signing in” message occasionally. All I do is switch servers and clear all history/cookies/etc. It works 95% of the time.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I use MullvadVPN and I almost always encounter this issue.

      It probably depends on which server(s) you’re using.

      • Gangly3090@lemmy.ml
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        It does, I’ve found Albania, Estonia and Nigeria skip the issue at least. If anyone else got server recommendations that work feel free to drop! I should probably clarify that my Mullvad connection is a barebones Wireguard one running on top of Tailscale

        Sometimes the more commonly used servers like UK start working for a few hours/days but that never lasts. The 3 listed are basically bulletproof in my experience though

        And yea, using a frontend will not bypass this. Unless that frontend is an online downloader like Cobalt.tools or amp4.cc. Or Invidious I guess but that… Has its own issues

        This maybe affects Mullvad so strongly cause they never bother hididng/swapping their server IPs and don’t have a particularly large plethora of them unlike competitors?