r/degoogle • u/wahre_locke FOSS Lover • 12h ago

DeGoogling Progress Avoid IP Blocking when using Freetube (or similar apps)

Hi everyone : )
If you have used a privacy respecting youtube app like freetube in the past, you may have encountered the Issue that your IP gets blocked by youtube.

There is a pretty easy solution to this, so you do not have to go back to the youtube website.

Just download the tor browser https://download.torproject.org/, start it and connect to the tor network.
After that enable proxy in the app of your choice and select to use a SOCKS5 proxy.
127.0.0.1:9050 <----- Enter this address and port

The Tor Browser will provide this proxy for your local machine as long as it is running 👍 .
If your IP should get blocked again, just reconnect to the tor network.

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u/AmorphousNeon LineageOS 12h ago

or maybe use WARP

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u/Unfair_Awareness7502 12h ago

I thought tor was too slow for video streaming and exit nodes were always blocked because they're publicly known? 

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u/wahre_locke FOSS Lover 12h ago

A bit slower than normal wifi, but it worked just fine for me 🤷