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

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I got a sign in prompt over my proton vpn the other day. Refreshed and it was gone

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Huh, I literally can’t use YouTube because it always wants me to sign in.

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I kind of suspect that proton pays a premium to get their IPs whitelisted

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I think its because they have like 11000 servers, much more than Mullvad or IVPN.

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