How to watch youtube while always-on VPN is present?

Also NewPipe version 0.27.5 update is out and take care of the login problem for the time being.

That’s incorrect, it doesn’t take care of that.

This hotfix release fixes YouTube videos not loading due to the error “IOS player response is not valid”, see Issue #11934 and Pull Request TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1262.

Note

This release only addresses the most pressing error that prevents YouTube video details from loading.
We are aware there are other problems, and we will soon make a separate release to solve them.

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Right now, I am not able to use Libretube at all while connected to Windscribe. IOS player response is not valid

I use FreeTube with a TOR proxy. Seems to be very robust.

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Yeah… The same error happens on other NewPipe forks, for example, so that means that the IPs you’re using are blocked.

I used LibreTube for months before it broke, and moved to Clipious. It began acting strange, so I’ve stayed on Gray for a few months now.

Also, perhaps this could fix your issue, but I’ve known LibreTube to be very unreliable anyway.

I use BraveNewPipe and IVPN I rarely have any problems.

MullvadVPN sucks for youtube.

At this time Newpipe, Grayjay, Libretube and Freetube (and probably others) have already implemented workarounds to avoid Youtube litiming rate that work well for the time beeing.
Mullvad has little to do with that.

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Yeah, you’re probably right. MullvadVPN has just being annoying for me last few months. Not just for Youtube I had to change server alot every day.

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On Grayjay, I still have messages like “blocking attempt detected” and then it reloads the video (infinite loop).

I don’t think this is resolved (at least not on GJ Android).

Yes, the problem is coming back but it’s the cat and mouse game. You have to live with it if you want to use YouTube without logging in.

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Grayjay’s “infinite loop” is super annoying at least on Newpipe/forks remember where it stops.

On Newpipe “Sorry, something went wrong.” error. You can just reload the video a few times and the video wil play as normal.

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You can try to change your server so that it can access the type of content that you want to access. Also, try connecting to the VPN before opening the YouTube so that your IP address is masked.

At this point, I’ll just create an account. Ugh.

Never. I’d rather exempt the app/browser used for Youtube from the VPN.

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Newpipe update for those who never loose faith :wink:

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