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<blockquote data-quote="Marko :)" data-source="post: 1103054" data-attributes="member: 39702">Don&#039;t worry, it won&#039;t.Why? Because number of people having VPN and using it to access ad-free YouTube is tiny. Also one of the reasons is YouTube doesn&#039;t license the content. Streaming platforms license content regionally and they could be sued by the owner if they made content bought for one region available in them all. For the same reason, ISPs switch off channels from other countries when there&#039;s sport event going on; neither does TV channel nor the ISP have rights to show that event in the country.There isn&#039;t any general trend. Services block VPN traffic if it&#039;s used to bypass their policies. YouTube never started blocking or limiting VPNs. The only thing they did is stopped people from using VPNs to get the cheaper premium plan from other countries. It&#039;s because of money, why would you pay cheap when you can pay premium more expensive at your location. As I already said, streaming services started blocking VPN because they want to protect themselves from possible lawsuits AND to avoid you getting the subscription for cheap like YouTube.Some governments made VPNs illegal, some blocked them. But the hard truth is... VPNs can&#039;t really be blocked. There will always be an IP address which isn&#039;t blocked. To successfully block VPN service, you need to block all the IP addresses they use and that&#039;s really hard to do because one IP address can be used for multiple things, from hosting a web sites, gaming server, being a proxy and VPN server at the same time.This is why Russia gave up on blocking Telegram after they tried so hard. They blocked thousands of Telegram&#039;s IP addressed and not only Telegram was still functional, but they blocked half of the web.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marko :), post: 1103054, member: 39702"] Don't worry, it won't. Why? Because number of people having VPN and using it to access ad-free YouTube is tiny. Also one of the reasons is YouTube doesn't license the content. Streaming platforms license content regionally and they could be sued by the owner if they made content bought for one region available in them all. For the same reason, ISPs switch off channels from other countries when there's sport event going on; neither does TV channel nor the ISP have rights to show that event in the country. There isn't any general trend. Services block VPN traffic if it's used to bypass their policies. YouTube never started blocking or limiting VPNs. The only thing they did is stopped people from using VPNs to get the cheaper premium plan from other countries. It's because of money, why would you pay cheap when you can pay premium more expensive at your location. As I already said, streaming services started blocking VPN because they want to protect themselves from possible lawsuits AND to avoid you getting the subscription for cheap like YouTube. Some governments made VPNs illegal, some blocked them. But the hard truth is... VPNs can't really be blocked. There will always be an IP address which isn't blocked. To successfully block VPN service, you need to block all the IP addresses they use and that's really hard to do because one IP address can be used for multiple things, from hosting a web sites, gaming server, being a proxy and VPN server at the same time. This is why Russia gave up on blocking Telegram after they tried so hard. They blocked thousands of Telegram's IP addressed and not only Telegram was still functional, but they blocked half of the web. [/QUOTE]

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