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browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance
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Tor completely blocked by YouTube #134

Closed user234683 closed 7 months ago

user234683 commented 2 years ago

All Tor requests are now blocked. However, visiting YouTube via the Tor Browser is not blocked. After having youtube-local use the same exit nodes and same headers, the main difference I see is the usage of http2 in Tor Browser. I do not have time for further investigation than this until mid June.

If anyone can figure out if HTTP2 is the thing that will bypass the restriction, that would be appreciated. HTTP2 requests in Python.

Test url to visit using a Python script, routing through Tor: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=test

ohnonot commented 2 years ago

All Tor requests are now blocked.

I cannot confirm this. The "On, except video" setting has been working well for me, on 2 different machines (same IP though).

Tor version:

Tor version 0.4.7.7.
Tor is running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.12-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1o, Zlib 1.2.12, Liblzma 5.2.5, Libzstd 1.5.2 and Glibc 2.35 as libc.
Tor compiled with GCC version 12.1.0

and

Tor version 0.4.5.10.

Again, both are working well enough, except when I was testing a new install and apparently overdid it. I'm running tor without entry/exit node restrictions, and the necessary settings to make it work with this repo.

PS: is the tor software changing circuits automatically at regular intervals? Or does youtube-local implement this?

user234683 commented 2 years ago

All Tor requests are now blocked.

I cannot confirm this. The "On, except video" setting has been working well for me, on 2 different machines (same IP though).

Tor version:

Tor version 0.4.7.7.
Tor is running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.12-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1o, Zlib 1.2.12, Liblzma 5.2.5, Libzstd 1.5.2 and Glibc 2.35 as libc.
Tor compiled with GCC version 12.1.0

and

Tor version 0.4.5.10.

Again, both are working well enough, except when I was testing a new install and apparently overdid it. I'm running tor without entry/exit node restrictions, and the necessary settings to make it work with this repo.

PS: is the tor software changing circuits automatically at regular intervals? Or does youtube-local implement this?

Ah, working on my end now as well. Looks like I left an ExitNodes restriction in my torrc while debugging this. Yes, Tor changes circuits on its own periodically. youtube-local only tries to change circuits when the exit node is blocked

user234683 commented 7 months ago

As of 1/20/2024, Tor routing appears to still work, so closing this issue. Feel free to open another issue if there are recent problems