YouTube won’t let me watch this video with my VPN on. Is this a new thing?

  • archchan@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    They’re killing third-party client access, limiting adblockers, blocking VPNs, and forcing sign in more and more. I sincerely hate it but this was inevitable. They have their monopoly, this is just the “abuse that position and enshittify for more data and money” stage. I hope an alternative takes off because I refuse to play by their rules.

    • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      The day the finally kill adblockers and third party clients I’ll stop watching and I started to think I won’t miss it at all after barely open it in a week.

      • emberpunk@lemmy.ml
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        19 hours ago

        Agreed. I hate the direction this is going towards but I’ll just find other avenues.