Wednesday, 21 June 2017

To Watch YouTube with Country Restriction

Sometimes YouTube videos are marked as unavailable due to a country restriction, but it is still possible to view them by using a simple URL trick, which will open the video in full screen and will hide adverts.

The video you want to watch has the URL:
youtube.com/watch?v=ab12C3dE4g (don't try and watch this as it is a made up example.

Remove the 'watch?' and replace the '=' with another / (highlighted in red above).

The URL now looks like this:

youtube.com/v/ab12C3dE4g

That's all there is to it.

Source: Phil Bradley Internet Q&A in CILIP Update, June 2017