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"YouTube Red is not currently available in your country."

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"YouTube Red is not currently available in Canada."

And they still wonder why people pirate things...

"YouTube Red is not currently available in United Kingdom."

Is this thing live anywhere outside of the US?

Edit: it looks like YouTube Red actually has a support system. It just popped up on the find out more page. I clicked it out of curiosity and was first in line and the chat connected before I could react.

As I was there I asked when YT Red would be available in the UK.

"Hello, as of the moment we don't have any other information when its gonna be available in other countries." - I'm guessing that's we as in support rather than GooTube as an entity

Well it seems reasonable that they might have chosen to launch in the US only. I think even Google might be leery of launching services to more than 300e6 people at the same time. ;-)

Anyhow, my snarky comment was more related to the fact that this is yet another streaming media service (Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Amazon, Pandora, half of youtube, ...) that isn't available in Canada. Maybe Google will surprise me and offer it to us eventually /s

I do understand that they'd rather limit it than unleash it upon the world but it's unfortunate if lets say my favourite american YouTube channels start putting out Red content.. Let me throw money at you, Google!

You can try Youtube-Dl - also gives you adfree and offline. :-)

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

Someone could (I think) write an extension to prefetch Youtube video links, download with youtube-dl to /tmp, and then re-embed the local file when you visit the page. Could be tuned to waste less space or use AWS for quicker download speed.

That sounds unnecessarily complicated. You should be able to write an extension that simply bypasses the Youtube player (possibly looking at the youtube-dl source to figure out how to find the video file itself).

"Bypass the Youtube player" is what I meant, but reasons to use as is: its interface is simple, it's maintained (this is a hack, why trouble yourself when youtube breaks things), and you won't have to read this: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/ext...

There's a greasemonkey script that replaces the video with a local player/html5/video plugin: http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en

I use it with the mpv option and mozplugger. It seems to work quite well.

VLC also plays Youtube videos.

You can either open them with CTRL + N, or just launch it with

    $ vlc https://youtube.com/foo/bar/

Well, if we're going to get our music via 'alternative' methods, I'd just cut to the chase and use What.Cd (or another tracker).

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