Based on recent reports, YouTube is actively restricting access to Premium accounts created through VPNs and cracking down on users accessing Premium content across different regions. According to user discussions, YouTube now detects and blocks VPN connections when attempting to stream Premium content[1][2].

Some key impacts:

  • Users report being unable to play YouTube Music through Sonos speakers when using a VPN, with the service becoming accessible only after bypassing VPN connections[1:1]
  • Premium subscribers attempting to access content from different regions than their subscription face connection errors and service disruptions
  • The restrictions appear to be part of YouTube’s broader strategy to enforce regional content licensing and subscription terms

The crackdown coincides with YouTube’s increased focus on Premium subscriptions, including showing longer unskippable ads to free users in 2025 to drive Premium adoption[3].

  1. Sonos Community - Unable to play YouTube Music ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Reddit r/VPN - Getting around YouTube Premium ↩︎

  3. LateNode Community - Why are YouTube users experiencing extremely long, non-skippable advertisements? ↩︎

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 day ago

    I know Schwim Dandy

    I made a right pigs ear of that post.

    still I am a new user so I will take that as a lesson

    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 hours ago

      Hah. I mean no offense but you sound exactly like Gemini or copilot after I call it out for some egregious hallucination.

      "Of course you’re absolutely right, I completely understand how saying X would undermine your confidence in my abilities. I’ll keep that in mind for next time, I’m always learning etc…

      • infjarchninja@lemmy.ml
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Hey some_kind_of_guy

        Thank you.

        you are very kind, I am glad you found it funny, I do try my best.

        You never know what sort of feedback you will get.

        After all there are 8.5 billion different opinions in the world.

        I sound like gemini or copilot. Not bad for a 69 year old.

        Wow! I heard some difficult personal feedback, learning about things I did not know about myself, in the weekly process group during my psychotherapy training, but sounds like gemini or copilot, I would have said that sounds more like Projective identification

        Projective identification is an unconscious phantasy in which aspects of the self or an internal object are split off and attributed to an external object.