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Hey, I paid for a Proton Unlimited package for the second year. After hearing that Proton CEO Andy Yen voiced support for the U.S. Republican Party, I wondered about the company's direction. However, there isn't clear evidence that a Trump administration would be anti-privacy or worse than the Democrats regarding privacy in the U.S. I chose the company because Proton AG is headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland, where its data centers are also located. Additionally, I selected the EU model when purchasing. They have over 110 servers and seem fairly fast compared to my experience with NordVPN over the years. Sadly, in the YouTube field, most of these IP addresses across its global servers have been flagged, and I'm pretty sure I can't even post this reply on lemmy.world without pausing my VPN.
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I use ProtonVPN (paid) and its works with Youtube just fine. I mean, occasionally you get a "Sign in to prove your're not a bot", but I just disconnect and reconnect and its a new server and it should work.
I mostly use North America servers via the "Secure Core" feature through Switzerland.
I'm using Fennec + uBlock Origin.
For Lemmy, you should use another instance that allows VPNs. I can even use Tor on top of VPN on my instance.
Btw I wouldn't worry about the Andy Yen debacle unless he starts going full elon. He's only one board member after all. (But I am keeping an eye on it and preparing to move to alternatives)
It's because LW is behind cloudflare iirc.