Maiq

VPN’s are like a condom for the internet. With much of the internet trying to fuck you putting on a wrapper is probably a good idea.

Eventually you get used to the slower speeds, rarely have issues with connection and if I do I just change IP. If a website doesn’t allow a vpn I really don’t need to go there and for the sites that I do want to visit there are optional different front ends I use.

A vpn and a good add blocker is pretty much a necessity for me at this point.

A lot of this has to do with youtube blocking IP addresses. When it happens to me I change IP and it works again.

How have you installed the yt-dlp app? Through apt or with pip? You can probably get faster updates if you use pip.