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Zapret and unblocking YouTube

YouTube in Russia is throttled at the TSPU level, and both "obvious" solutions are bad: sending it abroad gets you a foreign region and ads and burns paid traffic; sending it through Russia without a bypass throttles just the same. The right move is a separate cheap Russian server with zapret as the YouTube exit. Let's build it.

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Why this is complaint number one

On my service "YouTube is laggy" has sat at the top of support tickets for years. And the annoying part is that the VPN itself has nothing to do with it: video is throttled separately, at the TSPU level, by cutting the route to googlevideo. Hence the endless buffering, 360p, and the client's feeling that …

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