They’re telling us how to consume content now
Nah it is so they can target location based ads at you. People pay to have their ads shown in a certain area, YT wants to know your area so they can get more money when you click on that ad.
Are you watching F1? Most people complaining about this here were indeed watching that channel
I got this once, but after refreshing the page, it disappeared, never to be seen again.
Can VPNs not spoof the location?
Honestly, they need to do this with video games as well. People will be abusing it to get easier lobbies while making everybody else’s life miserable.
I think its about time we migrate to somewhere else
They outright blocked me from paying for YouTube Premium because suddenly they’re saying I need to use a payment method from the country I am in, which I don’t have, even though for years they were happily accepting my payment method from my home country. So now I just download my YouTube videos and watch them off-site. No ads, and none of their bullcrap.
In events like the Olympics, they may hide that content from some countries and I think YouTube could face a lawsuit if they didn’t stop you from using a VPN on videos that hide it from other countries
Brave browser allows you to turn off annoying prompts from youtube including shorts as a whole all while blacking ads? Love it!
Use brave browser. You can custom block all that bs.
My fav redirect that I get from YouTube is the one about the video I’m about to watch has ads read by the people of the show. It’s almost like YouTube has a problem with that for some reason.
Did you get this when going to the Formula 1 youtube channel?
They’re arrogant enough to.
by content they mean ads.
This is gonna me it a pain in the ass for me to watch YouTube on my work PC.
This kind of shit is exactly why I don’t even believe in VPN’s 'complete" usefulness. they were advertised as “hiding your location by showing you in an entirely different one, as if you were there blablabla” & then we get YouTube & Netflix locking as soon as you have vpn on lmao…
What if you’re watching yt from Iran, China or Russia, where it’s like COMPLETELY blocked?
Yeah. So it turns out that you connected to their server that they own. Shocking.
You’ll never know my location I will further watch American’s even know I speak German!