Is anyone else having trouble watching youtube videos with Mullvad? Getting blocked by them and others nowadays. Am I just not using obfuscation correctly?

  • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    Oddly, I actually can’t watch YouTube without using Mullvad, my ISP does some weird-ass something that causes even 480 forced videos to buffer every 3 seconds or worse. Sometimes they just won’t load. With Mullvad on everything plays at 720/1080 seamlessly.

    It’s especially odd because every other everything on the internet is fine. It is only YouTube.

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      6 days ago

      Maybe it’s more a FreeTube thing? I detest Reddit but every once in a while it comes up in my search results with a potential answer and I get “blocked by network security” makes jerkoff motion. The obfuscation mode is set to auto but there’s 3 options and I have no idea which is the best choice overall.

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        6 days ago

        Oh I can never access reddit. I have Opera Browser installed and configured for privacy + its VPN active in case someone sends me a reddit link. It isn’t perfect but it at least loads, if I deem it important enough to click.