「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)Oct 26

Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/48622354

Show threadunexposedhazardOct 26
This isnt new. Its been happening for years. There is a post about this on lemmy every few weeks. It just doesnt happen consistently, so people always think that they “discovered” this for the first time.
Show thread「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)
But this is even dumber than before, you can’t even login to bypass. What about people living in a country where youtube is blocked. I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?
Oct 26 at 11:17amWeb
Show threadunexposedhazardOct 26
I see. I havent had a Google account for like 8 years, so i didnt notice the difference.
Show threadbrucethemooseOct 26

What about people living in a country where youtube is blocked. I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?

Yyep.

If you’re using a VPN, you’re likely anonymized and not directly making YouTube any money. So they don’t care.

Show threadHaystackOct 26
They said logging in doesn’t make it go away. Being logged in means they can already track you, so this is pretty ridiculous of them tbh.
Show threadDrDystopiaOct 26

Being logged in means they can track what you watch. Being logged in via a VPN means they can’t track your location.

Literally valuable information.

Show threadSmokeyDopeOct 26

A few days ago I gotta message from google saying they “can’t verify my age” (meaning they want gov ID I’m sure) so I’m forced to use safe search and other stuff too.

Fuck. That!

Show threadMiles O'BrienOct 26

I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?

Yes, 100%, absokutely correct.

Google is a company.

Companies do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.

Show threadhuppakeeOct 26

Google is a company multi-billion dollar corporation.

Companies Multi-billion dollar corporations do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.

(Well ok, there is plenty of small business who also don’t care about you, that’s not my point).

Show threadBronzebeardOct 26

Trillion*

You can count the number of companies this rich on one hand.

Show threadPossibly linuxOct 26
Why is YouTube blocked?
Show threadincompetentOct 26
Authoritarianism.
Show threadvikingOct 26
Free access to “radical” ideas doesn’t bode well with conservative governments.
Show threadhcbxzzOct 27
Probably part of the age verification bullshit
Show threadQuokka (on the move...)Oct 27
@DeathByBigSad @unexposedhazard VPN to a location where it's not blocked and YT hasn't (yet) block-listed the VPN endpoint IP.
BBC have also been good at blocking for years.