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.