Bypassing YouTube IP block with FreeTube and optimized Tor

Recently, YouTube is messing with user disobedience again. For the sake of that, FreeTube has been updating with fix multiple times. Although FreeTube has fixed the API block done by YouTube, I have to deal with a new IP block from my end as its aftermath. “YouTube has blocked your IP address from watching videos. Please try switching to a different VPN or proxy.” There are many ways to get around this IP block. Because I think switching VPN server is too heavy just for this, I would like to use a proxy. ...

August 26, 2025 · 3 min · Jun

Unblock URLs from My Own Filter Lists

Podcast doesn’t fetch I have multiple devices that are using different URL based filter methods. Some are at the router level and some are at the system level, e.g., Hosts file, DNS and VPN built-in. Recently, I found out there is a broken one in my podcast subscriptions. It’s been a long time not listening to the podcast, Startups For the Rest of Us, since I started following Rob Walling’s new show called MicroConf. However, I want to return for the bonus episodes on SFTROU occasionally. ...

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · Jun