you’d be better off connecting to the netherlands or some other country that straight up don’t get ads though
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Solventbubbles@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Vietnam is about to see a lot of people connecting to their servers through VPNs.
lostme@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Uhhh we have ads…
lostme@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i think i confused it with twitch from a couple of years ago, quick google search says people are using albanian VPNs to avoid ads on youtube
not that it matters much since using ublock is easier anywaysorry for spreading misinformation on the internet, i take my L+bozo card ._.
FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Fair enough! You have my respect
bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if google/YouTube just bans all VPN IPs. They already make you sign in lately if your IP range has been “shadow banned.”
Joonquli@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I would be. Maybe some public ones that people heavily bot from are getting shadow banned? But ALL vpns? I dont think thats possible.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It very much is possible to ban “all” public and even commercial VPNs. VPN traffic tends to have very distinct characteristics in logs and it is not overly difficult for orgs to get the IP ranges allocated to each company.
What is not possible is banning all vpn traffic in the sense that a friend or family member sets up wireguard for you. But that is a drop in the bucket to the point of being functionally nonexistent.
Tanoh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are even companies selling lists of IPs for all sort of behaviour and characteristics. Just adding one of those is trivial.
Though google has a lot more data and engineers so they could just create a better one themselves.
It is a constant cat and mouse game between VPN providers and other actors. A few IPs get on a list, they try to find others, repeat
Joonquli@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeeah i guess your right. It would just be pretty insane move from google in my opinion there are just so many people and organisations that need vpns for like domain use and whatnot.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s always funny when a service “bans” the use of a VPN but you can almost always find a server that works.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Imgur bans my IP from a Digital Ocean droplet of my own build. Just sayin’, they’re not only operating from known IP ranges.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
A digital ocean IP is going to be under a specific ASN with information on multiple ip ranges. These ASN under a corporation are public and easy to block.
asrank.caida.org/orgs/949de93ab6
drmoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They can’t ban all VPN IPs though
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Me: imdb movie name… thinking it will save me a second.
“Click the stop signs”
Me: fuck it, I really didn’t need to know if that actor was also the one who played in other movie.
We were trained into saving time with search engines, now I have to remember to not use them and just type in imdb.com and then use their search function
drmoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are several domains specific search features like duckduckgo bangs that allow you to directly search popular websites with text like
interstellar !imdb- it’s super useful! I think firefox has something like this built in too.Venator@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
It happens if there’s a lot of traffic from the same IP, happened to me when I first imported my subscriptions into smart tube on my tv after I cancelled YouTube premium when they jacked up the price. Was just a temporary ban though.