Yep that 24/7 round-the-clock construction and experience in Taiwan surely would contribute significantly to the difference.

People please, use ca$h!

This happened to me the other day and then I realized that I had a duplicate of the app that was sandboxed on my phone. If you have a sandbox app like Shelter running it might be that, or simply check for duplicates of Voyager that you may not know about.

Good suggestions but most of the time I can’t get any of these apps to work, some commenters here say differently but for me, due to YouTube’s policy of “sign in to prove you’re not a bot”, I end up using a tor browser with cookies denied and sadly all the bullshit yt advertising of course.

I’ve been trying for weeks. Sometimes, using a random IP address with Proton VPN works for a few hours, but eventually, Freetube (or YouTube) seems to catch on and shuts me down. Gravitywell mentioned a piped instance, which was great but only worked for a minute or two for me. I think the days of being anonymous on YouTube are over—time to move on if privacy is important to you.

I’ve been on the Android ecosystem for 15 years, I literally thought this was an onion article.