I’ve got a paid ProtonVPN subscription and always-on VPN connection is running 24/7 on my phone. I’ve tried a bunch of Switzerland servers (it has to be Switzerland) and for every single one of them, youtube is showing “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot”.
As I don’t have an account and I don’t plan to create one, is there any way to watch videos? So far, I tried Tubular, PipePipe, NewPipe, LibreTube, browsers like: Mull, Cromite and Brave (both watching directly and over invidious). Also tried watching directly from duck.com website. Unfortunately, not a single thing worked.
Interestingly, before buying a subscription, I’ve tried a free version and it worked normally, although no Swiss servers of course, so I (wrongly) assumed that paid servers would work as well.
As I mostly listen stuff in the background, do you have any other suggestion how can I watch/listen those videos without changing anything on VPN side? If there’s no any easier solution, I could try hosting an invidious instance on a VPS.
You definitely can watch youtube with proton vpn and a frontend but you need sometimes to rotate your server that happen to be blocked.
Now, if you already tried ALL the swiss servers you probably have to use another country.
The secure core options mostly work and the first hop is Switzerland.
how about double hopping/chaining 2 vpn?
use cloudflare warp or apple relay which unlikely to be blocked by yt.
eg you connect to trusted vpn > trusted vpn connects to cloudflare warp > cloudflare warp connects to yt
would that setup work?
You can create subscriptions using RSS feeds. Then just open the links in Brave, which allows background play, blocks ads, and has offline playback + playlists (only on nightly though, accessible via flags).
This should work every time except with age restricted videos.
I have been getting this problem too actually. It doesnt work in countries like US or Mexico, but works fine in other ones. I used Grayjay, PipePipe, and even the website and it does the same thing. Im sorry this wasnt very helpful, I just wanted to say Im getting this problem too
Been getting this problem for various countries, Mullvad servers. Keep getting the ‘sign in to prove you’re not a bot’. I even get this prompt on invidious and other frontends.
I am curious if this policy of being forced to sign in / tracking IPs is legal in EU (seems to affect EU servers as well).
Browser itself doesn’t work either. I’m getting the same error. I don’t have subscriptions at all, my intention is just to watch videos from time to time and sometime listen them in the background.
Usually refreshing the same page again works. Sometimes youtube shows the sign in prompt on following links, then you refresh and the prompt goes away. Have you tried that before?
Otherwise the IP must have terrible reputation then. I haven’t had an issue on Proton free, Proton paid, and Mullvad paid so far, so not sure what the issue could be. Change servers and disable secure core if you are using it.