The “best content”:
Geeeez looking back at this hurts so much in so many ways
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.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The standing banana is for shock value…
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’ve had my current version for 3 months now and if it stops working I just immediately update it.
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!
I’ve been using newpipe for years and I only get issues when en Google go on a shit bender about ad blockers. Then, after a day, or a few days at the most, it gets updated and sorted.
They work fine for me, you just have to keep them updated.
Google has been fighting them and “AI” scrapers recently.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
“Tag”? I think you mean Whac-a-Mole…
If you turn VPN off, you lose.
Exactly!!!
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
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.
Sites will block content or require age verification by state, so if you’re connected to a VPN server located in one of those states you’ll see stuff like that.
The server I am connected to was in Canada. Its the same server I almost always connect to. If I am not connected to that one, I am connected to one in my home state for speed. My state does not require age verification to ask google what Showtime’s the nearest movie theater has.
Was the different server in another state?
Utter BS on their part. Time to go read books!
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.
Which country gave you this prompt?
I’m trying to say give up YT, not worth it anymore.
Canada
That’s absolute bullshit youtube, they don’t need any locational stuff, other than to sell to advertisers.
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