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“This will allow YouTube to locate the best content.”
It’s the blatant bald-faced lying that really gets me. They’re openly broadcasting how little respect they have for you, that they think you’ll swallow that as a valid reason not to function.
It’s as if some manager at Google deep down knows he’s a piece of shit who belongs in a gulag, and is subconsciously trying to bring it about.
This will allow YouTube to locate the best content.
But that you do that is the reason to use a VPN/proxy.
“This will allow YouTube to locate the best content.”
Ads are technically content, I suppose.
That's absolute bullshit youtube, they don't need any locational stuff, other than to sell to advertisers.
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Is it wrong or accurate to think that after the word "locate" was used I was immediately thinking of "locate your location." 😂
Its strange that they use the word "locate" than "select" or something along those lines.
I don't use proprietary, known evil services which require me to authenticate.
I pretty much only use YouTube to look up specific clips of things (eg: simpsons clips, bits from movies), the very occasional video game "how do I do this specific thing?", and specific songs i don't have a copy of. I never watch any of its original content. I'm sure some of it is fine, but sturgeon's law says most of it is crap, and there's so much non-crap already on my radar to read/watch/listen to.
So fuck youtube.
There's a couple of channels that I really enjoy on there.
Yeah, fuck YouTube as a platform, but to dismiss the entire content seems a bit whack. But I guess if they're already happy with whatever it is that they're watching, it's OK, I guess.
I don't know if YouTube is full Nazi bar, but it's pretty close. You shouldn't go to the Nazi bar just because they have good cocktails and there are some good performers at the open mic.
Sometimes you have to skip things you like. There's other content and other platforms.
oh wow...
The "best content":
The standing banana is for shock value...
For me it's almost the same, but the text on the thumbnail are in Hungarian, one is a clip channel of a crappy Hungarian Twitch streamer, and one is one of those channels that plagiarize content via translation and got his fame by plagiarizing an English video accusing all furries with zoophilia.
Here are some options for Android as well.
They only work half the time though.
Revanced on Android has been working quite nicely for me
Same, I use it in conjunction with NewPipe to conveniently download videos/audio. I also make sure to turn off thumbnails set by creators. Even my favourite channels that make great content have to make clickbait thumbnails, which I absolutely cannot stand.
I've been using tubular for ages and never really had any issues. Bonus, you can download the videos/audio if you want to listen to it later while in the road!
Change the VPN server/location.
That's why VPNs give you hundreds of options. You should be changing your VPN location anyway based on the pseudo-profile you want. VPNs aren't magic, they're just tools.
Other options include:
Searching for the video with DDG or Startpage and playing the video via their search
Using an Invidious frontend
There’s such an easier fix: just stop using a service that has zero respect for you.
I assume you mean YT here, and not the VPN?
Absolutely that’s what I meant.
I have this set up on my router. My wifi is blanket tunneled through a VPN. For annoying sites that restrict access like reddit, my router routes through a specific VPN server that doesn't (yet) get blocked (I don't post/comment/browse, but occasionally find a post that answers a question). That way it works on my whole home network, regardless of device.
Same could be done for YouTube presumably, but maybe a little more complicated (reddit seems to work with a single /32 address).
Plus, it's fun to set up---MikroTik router, Mullvad, and an ARM SBC doing the VPN duties for me, but myriad ways to get it working for other configurations.
For reading reddit you can just use a redlib frontend and never get blocked. When I get the "woah there, pardner!" I just take the URL from the /r/ onward and paste it after a frontend URL. Takes 2 seconds.
Also, setting up a router level VPN is just an OpenWRT config on plenty of routers. Depends on your firmware how many servers you can have listed to bounce between. Otherwise just bounce more per device.
I have a Firefox add-on that automates that. Reddit links get redirected to a random redlib instance. It's pretty nice.
Yeah, one of the issues I was having with running VPN on router is that you need a somewhat beefy router if you want to use your full bandwidth---my router maxes out at about 90Mbps with WireGuard, even though it can NAT around 1Gbps (which is our service).
I implemented two workarounds, one was to use my access point as a VPN router since it had a beefier CPU, and the other was to just use an ARM SBC with Linux to handle that task. (I ended up with the latter, as the former ended up maxing out at around 400Mbps, and introduced some additional headaches.)
Don't worry, the internet where I'm at sucks so bad everything else has higher bandwidth capacity.
The very, very best content. Content so beautiful it makes you go "hmmm, what beautiful content". Can't serve no wonderful content with that nasty VPN on, no sir.
I'm on proton vpn and it works fine for me. I'm using YouTube through Firefox though, not the app, because fuck the app
YouTube has been trying to block VPNs for months now. Especially one that offers a free one like Proton. Just switch your VPN server till one works. They're always playing tag.
Enshittification proceeding nicely. I use Freetube on the desktop and Newpipe on my Android phone. I have ExpressVPN on my router.
I browse with invidious and just download whatever videos I want to watch with yt-dlp
Utter BS on their part. Time to go read books!
I am also on Proton VPN. 2 days ago Google search wouldn't allow me to search at all because it couldn't confirm my age.
I switched to a different server and it worked, but that shouldn't have made a difference, since I was sigbed into the same google account.
Strangely enough, this happened about 30 ish hours after I started self hosting my own searxng.
The only time I had this issue, I jus used ytdl-p to bypass while still keeping my VPN up. The video was not really worth it, but at least I could watch it.