The “best content”:
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.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“This will allow YouTube to locate the best content.”
It’s the blatant bald-faced lying that really gets me. They’re openly broadcasting how little respect they have for you, that they think you’ll swallow that as a valid reason not to function.
It’s as if some manager at Google deep down knows he’s a piece of shit who belongs in a gulag, and is subconsciously trying to bring it about.
This will allow YouTube to locate the best content.
But that you do that is the reason to use a VPN/proxy.
“This will allow YouTube to locate the best content.”
Ads are technically content, I suppose.
If you turn VPN off, you lose.
Exactly!!!
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.
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.
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
YouTube has been trying to block VPNs for months now. Especially one that offers a free one like Proton. Just switch your VPN server till one works. They’re always playing tag.
“Tag”? I think you mean Whac-a-Mole…
I switched to Mullvad VPN, and I’ve had one Youtube block in the last week. Well worth the cost of switching.
I don’t use proprietary, known evil services which require me to authenticate.
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.
Utter BS on their part. Time to go read books!
That’s absolute bullshit youtube, they don’t need any locational stuff, other than to sell to advertisers.
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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.
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.
Which country gave you this prompt?
I’m trying to say give up YT, not worth it anymore.
Canada
