I’m late to reply to @xe3 and @privacy.slouchy but yes it works without a VPN. On YouTube clients and sometimes one browsers when signed out, YouTube completely prevents Mullvad users from loading the video.
Unfortunately there’s no way to create local playlists (except temporary ones on Brave iOS?) or follow channels while signed out in browsers which was the main reason I used YouTube clients. Even so, when signed out I still get completely blocked on desktop browsers. Mobile is probably next.
It’s just luck. YouTube blocks it on mobile Brave just as it does on desktop Brave.
I got tired some time ago of constantly changing vpn locations only to watch youtube, now I use Freetube on split tunneling. I guess that’s a privacy concession.
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@user1 you could use the socks5 proxy @ty89 mentiomed above, if you use Mullvad
@moonwriting I know from experience that there are more servers but imho would advise against posting such lists as they become easily blockable
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No problems recently with Mullvad VPN and Invidious
Any problems usually resolved by changing Instance or Backend ( rather than VPN location )
I want to thank YouTube content creators who ( generally ) give their work to that platform for free with the ( generally ) intention of sharing their knowledge with others.
I want to thank developers of frontends like Invidious who allow us to watch these videos without selling our souls to a heavily gated monopoly ( as per SYST3M_D3STROYER cartoon )
If I can’t always access what I want immediately I generally realize it wasn’t that important … do I really need to watch ‘ how to make a lifesize replica of the Titanic out of pasta ‘ right now ….
Have a good day everybody
I should have known. I just happen to discover this today, and for some reason I never made the connection that it could be the exact same situation that people experience with FreeTube and NewPipe. That sucks.
It would surprise me if they are targeting Mullvad specifically, and it would surprise me if Google wasn’t capable of recognizing VPN IP addresses from all major providers.
I’m wondering if the reason you (and others) are experiencing issues, and I (and others) are not, is because of A/B testing / slow staged rollout. My recollection is that when Google rolls out these intentionally anti-user changes they usually do not do it all at once for all users across all OSes and browsers, etc.
@TheDoc have you tried changing the backend settings (switching from the local API to Invidious (or vice versa). When I’ve experienced problems with freetube that sometimes can alleviate the problem.
I could try, though I usually watch YouTube through NewPipe so I don’t have many opportunities to test with FreeTube.
LOL so true
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Newpipe mostly works, rarely have to fall back to pipepipe. Today first time both failed at specific video, switching location in mullvad once fixed it.