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?
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”?
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.
Why is YouTube blocked?
Authoritarianism.
Free access to “radical” ideas doesn’t bode well with conservative governments.
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!
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.
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.
Just install Revanced
How on iOS?
Really, if you’ve kept using apple all the way up until now, it’s kinda on you.
Fact
My ISP has started throttling YouTube to ~2mbps when viewed from desktop. Using a VPN gets around this and lets me watch in HD. Luckily I’ve not encountered this error yet, but if I do I guess it’s no more YouTube for me, 480p is just way too blurry to put up with.
I wonder if there’s any workaround besides VPNs like changing DNS or something?
I use 1.1.1.1 so I don’t think it’s easily ignored by changing DNS. But interestingly while using Revanced and NewPipe on my phone I don’t have any of the same problems. Maybe my computer is ignoring my router’s DNS? Maybe mobile YouTube is delivered from a different server? I wish I knew but ultimately using a VPN still works for me and is a very low effort fix.
What I don’t get is why it’s only YouTube they choose to throttle. I’ve never noticed any issues on other streaming websites and fast.com which literally uses Netflix servers is also full speed.
Phone->revanced
Smart tv->smart tube next
I don’t ever watch YouTube on my laptop but I’m sure there are utilities available.
I prefer NewPipe to Revanced.
Revanced is only in android right?
I think so. Only apple product I ever had was an iPod, so I’m extremely unfamiliar with their ecosystem.
Why would your ISP do that?
They’re 5g based, so I suspect it’s within the terms of service somewhere that they can limit the streaming quality? Historically I’d only ever noticed deprioritization, never a hard bandwidth limit.
Rip net neutrality
to save bandwidth
Why do people still use YouTube if they hate it so much?
Because all the videos are still there.
If that seems like a self-perpetuating problem, it’s because it is.
Listen at this point, we either re-upload our favorite creator’s content to other platforms. Convince them to join alternatives or help out their replacements on thise alternative platforms to grow.
Either way I do not respect content-creators that do not support alternative platforms (& decentralization) on principle
Listen at this point, we either re-upload our favorite creator’s content to other platforms. Convince them to join alternatives or help out their replacements on thise alternative platforms to grow.
I am with this, tired of using a yt frontend to watch videos (sometimes real website) and no reuploads nor have alterntives
I vote for all of what you said
Me: Leave that to me. I know what I want.
This will allow Youtube to locate
the best contentand spy on you more easilyFTFY
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.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.
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. 🤷♂️
I love that this complaint is posted to Lemmy: a platform that forces me to pause my VPN to make a comment.
Using Tor right now, no idea what you are talking about… oh right you use that instance.
.world =/= “Lemmy” 😉
Yeah, world is kinda shitty for that
locate the best content
Hell nah, please dont
How does this app survive economically?
Most open source projects are not financially driven. The bigger projects, such as this, usually function like non-profit organizations.
Apps don’t need finances to survive. The creator of the app could be working on it entirely because they want to, and not because they get paid. As far as I know, NewPipe is just a front-end. It doesn’t host anything, and just runs as a client to essentially give a new interfwce to YouTube.
Labor of love, I suspect
Pipepipe has been more reliable for me, lately.
But who knows how long these alternative front-ends will last? It’s a constant cat and mouse game between volunteers and Google.
