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Using Proton VPN with YouTube now gives me this. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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[–] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I am also on Proton VPN. 2 days ago Google search wouldn't allow me to search at all because it couldn't confirm my age.

I switched to a different server and it worked, but that shouldn't have made a difference, since I was sigbed into the same google account.

Strangely enough, this happened about 30 ish hours after I started self hosting my own searxng.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Sites will block content or require age verification by state, so if you're connected to a VPN server located in one of those states you'll see stuff like that.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    The server I am connected to was in Canada. Its the same server I almost always connect to. If I am not connected to that one, I am connected to one in my home state for speed. My state does not require age verification to ask google what Showtime's the nearest movie theater has.

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