Bypass “This video is not available in your country”

This video is not available in your countryYou might not notice this if you are staying in US, but some YouTube videos, especially official music videos, are restricted to viewers from the United States only. Whenever a viewer from outside US wants to view those videos, YouTube says “This video is not available in your country“.

The trick of replacing the YouTube video URL from www.youtube.com/watch?v=[video-ID] to www.youtube.com/v/[video-ID] will no longer work.

Using translators such as Google Translate and Babel Fish as proxy server will not work either, since they do not support flash. Proxy websites will probably not work as well, YouTube will show “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available” instead—but with one exception.

Workaround #1 – Using Hide My Ass!

Hide My Ass! works flawlessly in bypassing the YouTube region filter. As Hide My Ass! streams YouTube video using its own player, it will prevent the YouTube player from displaying the “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available” message. The server is located in US, therefore videos restricted to US viewers will play without a problem.

Hide My Ass!'s custom YouTube player

This is by far the only proxy website that will play country-restricted YouTube videos nicely and without any problem.

Update: More proxy websites that works..

Workaround #2 – Convert & Download Using Zamzar

Alternatively, you can use Zamzar to convert the YouTube video into any video format, then download and watch it locally. You might want to try other YouTube video downloaders too, but I have no luck so far.

Zamzar

Censorship? Discrimination? Muting? To hell with all that.

P.S. The workarounds works well at the time of writing.
P.P.S. They might not work for videos intended for audience in a specific non-US country.
P.P.P.S. Now I can watch Crank Dat Obama already
😀

#censorship#filter#proxy#YouTube

Comments

  1. ali2k5 - April 4, 2009 @ 2:21 am

    THANXXXXX xx
    bUDDY

  2. NA - May 9, 2009 @ 5:54 am

    Hi SheepTech,
    I’ve tried your solution with http://www.youtube.com/user/universalmusicgroup?blend=1&ob=4

    But get two different error:
    Without free web proxy (e.g. HideMyAss) i get the ordinary error mentioned here.

    “We are unable to show you the original feat. video for this channel due to age or location restrictions.”

    OR

    “This video is not available in your country” with other video channels…

    When use HideMyAss i get another error:
    “An error occurred, please try again later”

    Help, what is the problem???

    • Vincent - May 9, 2009 @ 3:51 pm

      Looks like the proxy listed above are not working already. I have no idea why.

      Perhaps downloading the video is the only way now. Too bad.

  3. Lauren - May 13, 2009 @ 10:02 pm

    Thanks for that! 😀

  4. Kunter - May 22, 2009 @ 8:59 pm

    Thank you, this is much easier than manually changing proxies every time 🙂

  5. Boris - June 14, 2009 @ 8:56 am

    FUCK AMERICA, yes fuck america for making even the internet segregated.

    the U.S.A is the Rome of the 21st century

    • Stewart Gray - October 1, 2009 @ 10:30 am

      What about the BBC? I’m in the USA and Britain has blocked me from seeing anything from their channel. I’d broaden that to “Fuck ANYONE who censors for reasons other than to protect an individual’s identity.”

      • andre - January 22, 2010 @ 2:38 am

        I agree, fuck anyone who prevents from seeing on the base of location

  6. Aksentije - September 14, 2009 @ 5:27 am

    OOOOkay heres the problem !!!!
    I can see a different player and alll so u could say oooo its going buT NOOOO
    When i try to play the video a advretisment pops up and it says below play video again and i do so and the same thing.. Advertisment and play video again ITS SOOO ANOYING HOW DO I CHANGE THATT!!!!
    If you are gonna anwser me someone just send an e mail to me
    [email protected]

  7. Uncle Samsense - October 17, 2009 @ 4:21 am

    The BBC is financed by the British Taxpayer. It is not really accountable to anyone who pays for its very existance. Even the brits cannot keep a copy of what they have already paid for, except for a few days? But, being the BBC, there is always two sides to every argument, (well er…in reporting news items) but here’s the crack, the BBC is not in the business of arguing with anyone about itself, how it works in detail, or what it decides. Instead of saying fuck this country or fuck that one, (countries are NOT the problem) we should be doing everything possible to stop the PEOPLE who do this shite, before they stop us netusers from being able to communictae like this also! I’m Spartacus! Who are you? I wonder how long before the net gets shut down altogether….as we know it today that is? PEACE! website for a friend!

  8. Shovan - March 25, 2010 @ 9:44 pm

    AWESOMEE

  9. Syed - May 26, 2010 @ 1:26 am

    Yeah i have a big problem with spike.com and comedy central.com all the shows well some of them are not available in my country since i moved from U.S is there a hack to fix this really desprate for help!!lol

  10. mischa12345 - July 4, 2010 @ 9:11 pm

    you guys are my heroes!!! thx

  11. ohlala - August 31, 2010 @ 12:01 am

    I LOVE IT!! AWESOME! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! THE HIDEMYASS.COM IS VERY USEFUL ON YOUTUBE!!!!!!!!

  12. exilia2 - September 17, 2010 @ 5:30 am

    SUPERB. BOTH WORK. MANY THANKS!!!

  13. dude - October 29, 2010 @ 10:27 am

    wonderful site, works like a charm!

  14. marie - November 1, 2010 @ 7:21 pm

    awesome thanks!!!

  15. yasha - January 9, 2011 @ 3:35 am

    if you want unblock sites and youtoobe too use VPN Service would be really useful.

  16. conny - January 27, 2011 @ 9:29 pm

    myself i use http://tubemirror.com its sort of like zamzar but can also extract audio etc

  17. maja - March 16, 2011 @ 5:44 pm

    how can i watch CW full episodes???with what should i unblock this site??thanks for help

    • AznGotSwag1 - January 25, 2012 @ 12:30 pm

      @maja,

      HERE: http://www.cwtv.com/

      I did not watch this yet, cause it’s not available in my country, ^^ But I think it’s available in yours? 🙂 Is it blocked in your country? Mine it isn’t, but can’t watch videos from it. 🙁

  18. maja - March 16, 2011 @ 5:44 pm

    how can i watch CW full episodes???with what should i unblock this site??thanks for help

  19. maja - March 16, 2011 @ 5:45 pm

    how can i watch CW full episodes???with what should i unblock this site??thanks for help

  20. mag - March 29, 2011 @ 8:27 pm

    doesn’t work 🙁

  21. Tom - April 9, 2011 @ 6:08 am

    Well I hope you enjoyed the video Americans, because people in other countries were not able to view it. Someone in head office thought that because they wouldn’t be able to make any money from it, they’d just disable playback for all non-US regions, even though it doesn’t cost them anything to make the content available – corporate greed gone mad, facilitated by youtube. Thanks.

  22. Raymund | HP Toner - April 20, 2011 @ 9:01 am

    Using proxy sites like Hide My Ass is a great way of bypassing the restriction.

  23. Harshit Singhal@Laptop Reviews - April 20, 2011 @ 10:10 am

    Using Proxy websites is the best way to overcome this problem. Hide my as is quite a good proxy website, a lot of people use it without any problems.

  24. ujan - May 10, 2011 @ 1:50 pm

    hidemyass does work !! u guyz deserve a thnx 4 dat ! but the problem is even official videos rn’t clear enough! for example the A7X Nightmare video is available on youtube & it’s pretty clear! but wen u try & watch it over hidemyass it turns out to be pretty much lyk hazy! now almost every A7X video is not available here in my country i downloaded ’em using hidemyass (thnx 2 u guyz)! but da videos r not as clear as they’re supposed to be! i hope it doesn’t put a question mark on hidemyass anyway

  25. Casey - May 17, 2011 @ 6:25 am

    A good turnaround too in watching restricted videos without utilizing these proxies is Youtube Mirror. But in the mean time, I think I have to try these all out, test it out with what I’m currently using now to see which one’s better!

    Regards,
    Casey

  26. Rohan Bhangale - May 23, 2011 @ 12:28 pm

    that’s really working ……….gr8 work …..Indians are in so need of this !!
    regards

  27. Tushar - June 13, 2011 @ 10:30 pm

    Thanks a tonne dude. Zamzar and Hidemyass are great. I concur with the above poster.

  28. Jzone - June 14, 2011 @ 10:41 am

    The requested resource could not be loaded because the server returned an error:
    404 Not Found (?).

    im getting that error when i tried going on mtv.com.

    help?:(

  29. Osama - June 26, 2011 @ 9:09 am

    i tried everything here and the only one that worked was http://www.tubemirror.com as recommended by casey so thanks for that

  30. ahmad - July 17, 2011 @ 10:06 pm

    i wana open thes website

  31. Gillian - August 6, 2011 @ 8:15 pm

    This is absolutely ridiculous. Recently I was looking for a segment done by Don Bluth (an American artist/director who has done work for Disney in the past) and now I cannot view the work of this film director who made movies such as “AMERICAN TAIL”?

    Youtube censorship is disgusting. The entire internet is changing for the worst. Tweet and Facebook accounts required to make simple comments on a webpage, companies dictating and censoring youtube accounts and videos, and the DMCA running wild across the internet to slaughter websites that the average joe happens to “not like”.

    This has happened because now everyone and their grandma is using the internet, a place which was once a place of freedom and communication, now its turning into a facist restriction filled with biggot companies squeezing as many coins and dollars out of the consumer as possible, and by doing so foolishly cutting off communications and references that people can no longer communicate by without meaningless restrictions!

    While we sit here with the economic slump companies/legislation are jumping on the internet to make it as censored and restricted as possible right under our noses!

    This is doing nothing but encouraging people to find other ways to simply view or see a clip that shouldn’t be restricted due to country, especially when that country’s clip is in their homeland!

  32. raza - September 12, 2011 @ 9:28 pm

    i have one problem my dear friends that how could i view my video with writing a littel different word.can you teel me who knows some idea about this please thanks.

    Your reguards.

    Raza dar

  33. Alex - December 12, 2011 @ 10:48 pm

    I`m using http://www.sunvpn.com/ to change my IP and to bypass geo-restricions. VPNs are much more reliable than proxies.

  34. Jumper456a.k.a n.b - December 30, 2011 @ 3:39 am

    have u ever went watching a vid. and youtube will say, an error occurred, and i do not know what to0 do and i really wanna watch my vid

  35. K - March 23, 2012 @ 9:35 am

    Boris, it’s not just the US. I want to be able to watch French Canadian TV , but it is restricted and I live in the US.

  36. bobby - April 12, 2012 @ 3:18 am

    anyway of getting around this on iPhone apps? I want to watch tv shows off the cw app but it knows I’m not in US >.<

  37. Pale Hacker - May 14, 2012 @ 4:40 pm

    If you are a Compute Hacker Just Create a new PC Virus and call it “YouTube” similiar to the PC Virus call “I Love You” and STRIKE BACK on YouTube and the USA Politicians who secretelly used the Boys Town homeless children as a Sex Slave. That will certainly make Google and the USA Government to cry Like A Woman giving birth. Just because China has an Histrory of Recording and Selling movies of the Cinema that is not yet on DVDs in the Stores that is Not Nice of Google and the USA to f**k other people around the world. Is not just the Cinema movies or TV Movies that YouTube blocks from watching in other countries, they also are blocking personal Short Films made by the Public and University Students who are learning how to Film. Hollywood does not want any Student from a University or College create their own Film Studio in the future. No wonder there are so many Unemployed people in the USA who can not find work in the Film Industry. Greedy Hollywood, Greedy Google, Greedy USA Government who intimidates other countries to do the same think on YouTube or they can not longer be “Allies” of the USA who lives on Chinese “Bail Out Money”.

  38. JordanTH - June 27, 2012 @ 5:21 pm

    The question I have is what do you do if a video is blocked in the US? Then what do you do? So far, no matter where I’ve looked, I’ve yet to find an answer that works.

  39. Batman4oz - August 15, 2012 @ 2:50 am

    I am In the US…trying to view My Own video on YouTube…In the US…and it’s saying it is not available in ‘your country’!??!
    YouTube just sucks…in Any country!

    ^^X^^

  40. uk vpn services - August 15, 2012 @ 8:25 pm

    I don’t know if you are aware of the fact that your IP address can be seen by others whenever you visit a website, and with that information, they are able to see your location. Also Internet providing companies restrict what websites you can visit when you sign up for their service. I think no one should be able to tell me what to look or not look at on my own computer. Their job is to provide me with a good connection, and as long as I pay for it, why do they care what I do? For all this reasons now I am using VPN Services to hide my IP address and surf the Internet anonymously.

  41. This is why I download stuff - October 10, 2012 @ 10:55 am

    When does ‘globalisation’ actually start?

  42. Mark Ackley - November 1, 2012 @ 2:41 pm

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  43. Gonzalo - December 19, 2012 @ 12:45 pm

    Hide my ass worked fine for me, but not anymore 🙁

  44. fawful - March 2, 2013 @ 5:14 pm

    Unblock youtube proxy linked me to porn.

    Trolls.

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