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YouTube pretty reliably blocks VPNs. The solution is to either not use their service, or accept the fact you can't view some videos, and move on.
I've never had youtube block my VPN. Is they just something they only do on chrome or have I just been lucky so far?
They don't block it for logged in users yet, just like reddit, but if you are logged out and have no cookies then they will block the playback for known VPN IPs.
youtube doesnt block vpn unless its one of the free crappy ones, reddit however will block vpns though.
Though I’m not going to say who and where my vpn is, I found a server that doesn’t block my vpn. Also, they don’t block Tor
I suppose it's possible you're flying under the radar, if you're not using a large-ish VPN provider.
I'd also be checking for DNS leaks, out of paranoia.
Not really. At least with Proton, I can just change the exit and it’ll work.
That said, I can’t be bothered to do that most of the time. I’m not missing anything by not watching YouTube videos.
Mullvad and also never had an issue with YT
Weird. For me it appears like in the last ~wk they've dropped the hard block, and are now using captcha.
It's entirely possible I'm getting caught up in some A/B testing, because of my exits of choosing.