Ever wondered why certain videos are country restricted ??
Ever wanted to view those videos ??
Here is a clean solution on how to view those videos...
Here is another simple hack to watch videos not available for your country bypassing YouTube's geographical restrictions, many videos on YouTube are not available for all countries and users from non-allowed countries are shown the message "This video is not available in your country" on accessing these videos.
Bypass YouTube Restrictions
However, YouTube can be easily tricked into displaying the videos in all countries by altering the URL a bit, for example instead of the regular url - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNIQUEVIDEOID, access http://www.youtube.com/v/UNIQUEVIDEOID (here UNIQUEVIDEOID is a unique 11 character video id code of the particular video).
Example:
Try watching this US specific video using the regular URL - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ciR9qR1dU, now try this altered URL - http://www.youtube.com/v/I9ciR9qR1dU.
Ever wanted to view those videos ??
Here is a clean solution on how to view those videos...
Here is another simple hack to watch videos not available for your country bypassing YouTube's geographical restrictions, many videos on YouTube are not available for all countries and users from non-allowed countries are shown the message "This video is not available in your country" on accessing these videos.
Bypass YouTube Restrictions
However, YouTube can be easily tricked into displaying the videos in all countries by altering the URL a bit, for example instead of the regular url - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNIQUEVIDEOID, access http://www.youtube.com/v/UNIQUEVIDEOID (here UNIQUEVIDEOID is a unique 11 character video id code of the particular video).
Example:
Try watching this US specific video using the regular URL - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ciR9qR1dU, now try this altered URL - http://www.youtube.com/v/I9ciR9qR1dU.
This is a good tip. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteIt also works for restricted videos that normally require a login because of adult content.
Example:
(before)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgleEGA4b50
(after)
http://www.youtube.com/v/QgleEGA4b50
Recently YouTube has been blocked by Government in many countries. But you can use Hotspot Shield VPN to bypass country limitation on YouTube. It provides USA IP address.
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