VPN for viewing PBS on YouTube does not work

So what is the workaround? I’m in the EU.

Regular Opera (Opera One) or Opera GX?

Windows or macOS or Android or iOS?

VPN

Are you talking about Opera’s built-in VPN or some other VPN?

PBS on YouTube

Link to video?

I’m in europe and i noticed that the VPN, when turned on and set to Americas, gives an IP address located in Sweden. If i select Asia, then my IP location changes to Bangladesh; set to Europe, Belgium. Last year it actually gave a US IP address when set to Americas. not sure why it changed.

Opera’s VPN, set to “Americas”.

version 106.0.4998.28

Windows 10 Home, 22H2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsdbCjlZ5cQ

Thanks for the clarifications. I tested with the VPN set to Americas and it works fine. But, I’m in the U.S., so that might not be a good comparison.

You can try upgrading to 106.0.4998.70 to see if there’s any difference.

You can try in a test standalone installation and make sure the VPN is turned on before you even try to load Youtube.

At the URL opera://settings/vpn, you can try disabling “Enable default search engines by bypassing VPN”. Youtube shouldn’t be treated as a search engine, but you can try to see if it helps.

Then again, it could just be Youtube knows Opera’s VPN/proxy servers.

NOPE, still not working.

What’s the point of having a VPN if servers can detect that it’s a VPN?

:frowning:

You can try the free version of Proton VPN to test if it works better. See https://protonvpn.com/free-vpn.