When you open the music section over at the video hosting site YouTube you get a list of popular music videos that are currently hosted on the site. You can play individual videos or all of them at once, and while that works nicely in most countries, you may live or be in one that has most of those videos blocked. The situation is very bad over in Germany for instance where only one or two of the forty music videos are working. For the remaining a message is displayed instead:
Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights
While you could go hunting for a different version of the song that is not blocked on YouTube or a proxy server to bypass the restriction you may prefer an automated solution instead.
The Firefox extension ProxTube – Unblock YouTube does that. It currently works perfectly fine in Germany and the Netherlands and may be working in other countries as well according to some user comments.
When you open a video on YouTube that is blocked in your country you will see a loading indicator and the message that “ProxTube is unblocking this video now”.
The Firefox add-on reloads the video automatically so that it can be watched on YouTube just like any other video. The speed is really good which can sometimes be an issue with proxies.
It should also be mentioned that you stay on YouTube and can watch the blocked video on the site. This is unlike other solutions that redirect you to a third party site.
The extension adds an icon to Firefox’s Navigational Toolbar to enable or disable the functionality.
ProxTube is a handy add-on for YouTube addicts living in Germany or the Netherlands who want to watch blocked YouTube videos. The developer has promised better support for other countries in the near future.
Firefox users can download the latest version of the add-on from the official Mozilla Firefox add-on repository.
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only works on youtube?
ive like to watch adultswin.com videos (its not porn, if someone dont know this) but no one of them are available to my country, Brazil
It only works on YouTube as far as I know.
Speaking about Brazil Martin, did you ever get my e-mail?
Which email?
Just sent it again to your googlemail.com. Cheers!
Thanks got it, will reply soon.
How to Unblock The YouTube Videos.
proxtube doesn’t work in Colombia…please! great idea…