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Watch Restricted Youtube Videos in any Country

Some videos on Youtube are only available to users of a specific country, countries or region. Everyone else may not watch the video and receives a message stating that “This video is not available in your country.” Youtube is also restricting access to videos that have been flagged to contain (possible) inappropriate content and users have to login to verify that they are 18 or older. Once they are logged in they can watch the video without difficulties.

You will be delighted that there is a speedy url hack (thanks to the Google OS blog) that bypasses both restrictions. This means that country restrictions as well as age restrictions will be bypassed. The following video for example points to one that is only available to US-residents: Youtube Video. If you click on the link and do not have a US IP address then you will receive the message that the video is not available in your country. US-Residents who can watch most videos on Youtube will run into difficulties when they try to watch some BBC content for instance.

All that needs to be done to watch the video is to change the URL of the video slightly. The above example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ciR9qR1dU would be changed to http://www.youtube.com/v/I9ciR9qR1dU to watch the video. This can be done with every video available at Youtube. So basically the watch? part is removed and the = after the v is replaced by a /.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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Responses so far:

  1. Webbster says:

    It works !

    Cheers for this mate.

    (UK expat)

  2. Hamza says:

    i’m in a country wich sites like youtube and dailymotion are banned
    and when i use a proxy, i can acces to the site but the videos can’t be displayed
    do you have any solution for that
    and thank you in advance

  3. Thom says:

    I’m trying it on this video, and all that I get is perpetual spinning. http://youtube.com/watch?v=gbnUpGqik2Y

  4. minime says:

    doesn’t work anymore ! :(

  5. Jake says:

    I just tried that, and it said “Embedding was disabled by request”.
    I tried this video, which is by CBS.=
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rnnCwsZNaI

  6. Sid says:

    No, this doesn’t work anymore…
    Please tell what can be done. i am trying to watch the following video:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LMN12U88RI

  7. ilu says:

    send all restri

  8. Try Firefox , Greasemonkey and this script
    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/98840

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