Example of video blocked outside US (Madonna - 4 Minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ciR9qR1dU
To see it, paste this in the address bar: http://www.youtube.com/v/I9ciR9qR1dU
Update (one day later): YouTube fixed the player and you can no longer bypass the country restrictions using this trick. Youtubegir has a nice proxy for YouTube videos.
The same trick works if you don't want to log in when you get this message: "This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community. To view this video or group, please verify you are 18 or older by logging in or signing up."
http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEOID sends you to the player used by YouTube when you embed the video into a web page and this player doesn't perform country verifications and can't detect if you're logged in.
I wonder if this trick will work in China. There internet restrictions are too sophisticated.
ReplyDeleteWell, this should work for videos that are restricted by YouTube. If you can't access YouTube because it was blocked by an Internet provider or by a firewall, then you could use a proxy or Tor.
ReplyDeleteDidnt take them long to make that not work.
ReplyDeleteNow that video says its not available.
@Bugabundo:
ReplyDeleteNot exactly. You can't link to the video, but you can still see it if you paste youtube.com/v/ID in the address bar.
That actually works when you copy the URL mentioned in the blog message, but who knows how long as some Google employees probably read this blog also. =)
ReplyDeleteGreasemonkey script anyone?
ReplyDeleteThank you... Germany loves you now. ;) :)
ReplyDeleteThis trick sure worked for me here in Israel. The original link didn't work, while the /v link worked.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
I can watch the BBC shows, but my Canadian and UK friends cannot watch the US shows. It is very strange.
ReplyDeleteWhoops! Apparently, this no longer works.
ReplyDeleteStrange, I get "we're sorry, this movie is no longer available". I also tried it with other videos "not available in your country".
ReplyDelete- Conu
As mentioned in the previous comment, YouTube fixed the player and this trick doesn't work anymore.
ReplyDeletereally cool trick, it works awesomely.
ReplyDeleteevden eve
ReplyDeletei live in China.
ReplyDeletei can watch tibet news by this trick.
thank you!
I'm from Kuwait, when I try that step first the video shows up, but whenever I click on play i get this message "We're sorry, this video is no longer available"
ReplyDeleteI guess I'll stick with torrents :(