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

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).

Yes, definitely a new thing. I see a different message but it is along the lines of I have to sign in so that they know that I am not a bot. A bunch of other websites were already doing this where they work without signing in if you are not on VPN but want you to sign in if you are on VPN.

Try different locations.

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 ?

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.

Dude my van has been breaking a ton of websites lately. I had to turn it off to check the tracking on a package from USPS yesterday. Any time a website is sending me to a broken page, I turn off my vpn and it works immediately.

I was going to ask because I’m somewhat new to vpns, but I just assumed it was one hassle for privacy. Is this a new occurrence?

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 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.

It could be some AB testing

They do this at times (depends on content) with my paid vpn (proton)

Where does the “learn more” go to?

I understand using VPN to circumvent region blocking. But for Youtube?

Aah, for that situation with some US-providers selling user data?

Ooh, of all the possibilities I didn’t have that one on my bingo sheet. I guess we’ll be Torrenting YouTubers sooner than later.