Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoYouTube traffic in Russia drops 80% as authorities try to curb accesskyivindependent.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1166
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minus-squareERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·2 months agoUsing VPN would mean that IPs would not longer be from Russian IPs, therefore, Russian IPs accessing Youtube would drop.
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2 months ago80% of people watching YouTube in Russia are now using a VPN.
minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThat would be my guess.
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Using VPN would mean that IPs would not longer be from Russian IPs, therefore, Russian IPs accessing Youtube would drop.
80% of people watching YouTube in Russia are now using a VPN.
That would be my guess.