Newpipe also fails to get the video when pulling from the same ISP.
the Invidious instance I used also fails in the last 10MB when getting the H264 version of the video, and CONSISTENTLY fails with 10MB to go.
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Very interesting.
So with out putting it back on you. It is confirmed working under various conditions, but we just donât know whatâs different other than major things like Country and ISP
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Is it just this video they wonât download? Do others download fine?
Yeah, just this video of recent hasnât played nice in terms of download.
Newpipe is working on my LTE connection apparently. Itâs not even the latest version, itâs a dated version.
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Did the full download to be sure. It worked 100%
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Okay, something is definitely up with the ISP because they were sabotaging DNS connections to Cloudflare if Cloudflare was used as the supplied routerâs DNS. They DNS redirect ALL websites to a âyou need to pay us to use the internetâ redirect if you havenât paid.
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Ouch⌠thatâs a whole chunk of the internet right thereâŚ
oh, that sounds much less trouble⌠Just a DNS thing? Change your local setting in your computer/phone/tablet/whatever, to specify your ownâŚ
Yeah, but I now know they do DNS hijacking when people donât pay. Landlord didnât like that and she now thinks Iâm a criminal.
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inb4 illicit beet root farm.
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I have no idea about when people donât pay, sorryâŚ
It would make sense to me just to captive-portal non-customers / people errant in the bill, to only serve up the ISPâs website, and make anyone pay to access the actual internet.
DNS would just be a separate thing.
Gotta make the bread somehow, to keep supplied with the little blue electrons of joyâŚ
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Yeah, but I had major DNS disconnects when Cloudflare indicated everything was fine and we were paying. Thereâs definitely something up with how they may be doing DPI and inspecting packets through their fiber network.
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do you use a vpn? would that not help to stop packet reading?
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Cancelled my ExpressVPN after the UAE thing came out. Was using ExpressVPN for the longest time when I had CCP supported CIK Telecom.
Maybe check out (at least) a free VPN? they will spy on, and sell your traffic, but at least you get the traffic upon which they can spy?
Iâm getting Starlink and ProtonVPN in my future plans. I donât trust any big name ISP in Canada and ProtonVPN is the only good choice left after the revelation about the UAE.
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I like protonvpn. it is decent. I also am stuck on big isp, with little issues. I am paying for gigabit and getting at best 948mbps at worst 800ish. But my upload sucks. If you like starlink, please review it. Starlink is available for me, and I am in the middle of nowheresville usa.
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But then again, the video played in the browser. Shut up IshâŚ
I gave them a go.
They were okay, so I upgraded to their supplier, Mullvad.
I had rolled my own, with a Linode 
instance, but the throughput was⌠choppy for video sometimes. and the IP address blocked by a few online shops / CDNâs
Yeah, thatâs whatâs super weird. With the specific ISP videos play in the browser but canât be gotten over yt-dlp or similar. Tried DoH in Firefox 78 and non DoH and IN BROWSER itâs fine. Switched to my LTE and there were no problems anymore.