They’re killing third-party client access, limiting adblockers, blocking VPNs, and forcing sign in more and more. I sincerely hate it but this was inevitable. They have their monopoly, this is just the “abuse that position and enshittify for more data and money” stage. I hope an alternative takes off because I refuse to play by their rules.

I like how they make up a phony benefit to try to make it seem like you’ll get something out of it.

Fuck YouTube. I deleted it. I can search for videos individually if I want to.

Only criminals use VPNs. Well known fact.

FreeTube running over Tor is working for me.

Try the Freetube or Grayjay client, they work for me with VPN.

If you are using a Free VPN, the would be A LOT of users using that server, so it looks like a denial of service attack from the server’s POV.

Even when I used a paid VPN, I still have to try many servers before there is one that works.

When I used ProtonVPN, it was like 50/50 if it worked or not.

When I switched to Mullvad and now to IVPN, who have much less servers to choose from, I have to try like 7 servers before I found a working one, and so far it’s been working fine for like the past week.

Its not a new thing. I’ve noticed it since last year (when I started using VPNs).

FreeTube my beloved!!

I dont understand why this happens to people along with “adblocker detected” and i’ve never had any of these issues on VPN with adblocks… is this something proper to the US or something ?

I find if I use my VPN and I’m not logged in, it says I can’t watch unless I log in. If I turn it off, it works. I think if you’re logged in, they can track you and monetize you. If you’re behind a VPN and they also don’t know who you are, they want to push you into telling them who you are.

What I’ve found as a workaround is to search videos using Duck Duck Go. It has a way you can watch YouTube stuff through DDG without being logged in. I imagine they’ll eventually figure out a way to patch that.

Proton + Ghostery wombo combo should still work for now for ad blocking and VPN.

Makes sense for a corpo like Google, ditch it and use Odysee or use another client like FreeTube or Piped. Piped doesn’t like my connecting via Tor but’s that’s alright I guess.