Comment by latexr
1 year ago
I believe your parent comment means when the target website blocks, not Cloudflare.
YouTube is a perfect example. Using iCloud Private Relay can now frequently label you as a bot, which stops you from watching videos until you login.
It happens to me a lot, I just created a small automation to use https://cobalt.tools to download the content. Their loss, not mine.
I do something similar. Over 90% of my YouTube consumption is with Alfred workflows which use mpv and yt-dlp under the hood. I just press a keyboard shortcut and the frontmost tab closes in the browser and starts playing in mpv.
The remaining percentage is still annoying, as it happens from the phone.
why is your tool so hard to use on ios? the website instructions say you need a companion siri shortcut, but no where is there actually a shortcut listed.
combing and coming through searches and reddit all comes up with non-working siri shortcuts that complain that the url is not found.
Nice tool.
Happened to me.
Interestingly enough I checked on another non-Private Relay device (it worked), disabled Private Relay, refreshed the page, which still blocked me, and it resulted in the ban instantly extending to my other non-Private Relay devices.
I presume some fingerprinting/evercookie was in place which led to a flagging/ban extension to my home IP.