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
Freetube probably
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.
Host Invidious locally…
On my smartphone?
You probably can with Termux lol
Is it wrong or accurate to think that after the word “locate” was used I was immediately thinking of “locate your location.” 😂
Its strange that they use the word “locate” than “select” or something along those lines.
Here are some options for Android as well.
They only work half the time though.
They work fine for me, you just have to keep them updated.
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.
Google has been fighting them and “AI” scrapers recently.
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.
If you turn VPN off, you lose.
Exactly!!!
The “best content”:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The standing banana is for shock value…
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.
I pretty much only use YouTube to look up specific clips of things (eg: simpsons clips, bits from movies), the very occasional video game “how do I do this specific thing?”, and specific songs i don’t have a copy of. I never watch any of its original content. I’m sure some of it is fine, but sturgeon’s law says most of it is crap, and there’s so much non-crap already on my radar to read/watch/listen to.
So fuck youtube.
There’s a couple of channels that I really enjoy on there.
Yeah, fuck YouTube as a platform, but to dismiss the entire content seems a bit whack. But I guess if they’re already happy with whatever it is that they’re watching, it’s OK, I guess.
I don’t know if YouTube is full Nazi bar, but it’s pretty close. You shouldn’t go to the Nazi bar just because they have good cocktails and there are some good performers at the open mic.
Sometimes you have to skip things you like. There’s other content and other platforms.
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.
Was the different server in another state?
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.
Can proton spin up new vpns? How does yt find out?
Lots of connections from one IP
Which country gave you this prompt?
I’m trying to say give up YT, not worth it anymore.
Canada
Utter BS on their part. Time to go read books!
