Access Geo Restricted YouTube Videos Without a VPN in Seconds
It’s absolutely exasperating to come across a YouTube video you’re really anticipating watching only to be hit by a message saying you can’t watch it because it’s blocked in your country. People usually just give up or sign up for those free VPN apps only to find that the free tier isn’t fast enough to stream videos in HD. Here’s a quick tip to access geo-restricted videos on YouTube without having to rely on a VPN or third-party extensions.
Bypass YouTube’s Country Restriction
The dreaded message nobody likes to see while browsing
A few videos could be blocked in your country because the content owner of these videos has not allowed access because of licensing or certain regulations of that country. Here is a simple two-step solution to bypass and watch YouTube videos not available in your Country
- Copy the URL of the YouTube video. If you’re using the YouTube app, press share and select copy URL
- Paste it in your browser but replace the keyword tube with pak and hit enter
For example, if the URL says:
youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
change it to
youpak.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
If it’s a mobile URL like –
m.youtube.com/watch?v=cADiZii4X8s
remove the m. to make it
youpak.com/watch?v=cADiZii4X8s
When you hit enter, the URL youpak.com redirects to eachvideo.com to load an embed of the video by masking its location to bypass the geo-restriction.
How does it work?
While it is technically similar to a VPN, you don’t need an app or proxy, or extension since the site takes care of everything in its back-end. YouTube uses your account and IP address information to determine your location, and now when you access the restricted video via this site, none of this is shared. Therefore, no more “The uploader has not made this video available in your country” messages on the video.
I’ve been using this method since 2015 without any issues and while the site is safe to browse, it’s supported by online advertising. Here’s the website’s privacy policy if you’re interested in knowing how it makes its money.
How is this different than our previous trick?
Our previous article relied on installing VPNs on your computer or using specific extensions. Also, the tool we recommended is now dead. This new trick is very simple to use, does not require anything to install, and works every time.
Bypass geo-restricted videos with eachvideo.com
Here’s a video if you still have any reservations:
Also, a plus is the ability to download videos up to 720p as MP4s or as a music file in MP3 format. There are certainly a dozen other ways and a dozen other tricks to get around this issue but the above method seems like the quickest way in my experience.
Related: Best Ways to Download YouTube Videos
That is a nice little hack for youtube vids. Wish we had as simple alternative to get around netflix’s region-blocking issues. for now, i’m only able to get other regions’ netflix working is by having my ivacy vpn provider’s technical team configure the workaround with windows. it’s not 123 but at least i can access other netflix regional libraries.
Same situation here. Before Netflix came to our country, we tried all sorts of VPNs. Now, we do it for Spotify. But the good part is, I just have to register to Spotify via VPN and then I can browse on regular connection.