Solve “The uploader has not made this video available in your country” Error

Youtube is world known for its video surging quality and its exclusive collection in them and is crazily used globally. It has an unbeatable competition with its quality dominance spread worldwide, over every single device of this planet.

There is no single doubt in the fact that any day it has failed to serve its user to its best and on time, but in rare instances, there is an annoying message which pops up with some unknown reasons. The message states – “This video is not available in your country” or “The uploader has not made this video available in your country“.

Solve "The uploader has not made this video available in your country" Error

A simple reason thought, behind this shooting error is about the restriction of the video for a particular geographical location or due to government legal privacy, licensing rights, and some other issues. And it is very obvious that if we watch these videos from some restricted IPs, then one won’t be able to see them.

This kind of message has left the viewers in a deep agony along with a curiosity about that particular video.

Out of a local survey done recently to solve this issue, I’ll be presenting below the list of ways which went unsuccessful:

  • Changed the browser
  • Cleared the recent history with cache memory
  • Resetting of PC and its network
  • Restarting the computer
  • Installing the latest Google Chrome updates
  • Disabled ongoing browser extensions.
  • Tried watching the video in incognito mode
  • Updated the whole Operating System

So this was the list of some commonly applied ways by the general public, which unfortunately went unsuccessful. So it is an advice to all of my readers for not imitating or applying these above methods in coming future for the very same issue and kindly be with me to know about this error in a little more depth.

Reasons for Error

Now let us shift our concern from the series of hit and trial methods to understanding the actual root of the issue. Some of the most common reasons found behind this shooting errors turn out to be:

  • Youtube may have blocked certain content from surfing online to a selected sect due to some local complications.
  • There is a lot to deal with the legal restrictions, rules, and regulations from the government’s end and this task must be done carefully.
  • Video owners may have created certain content for a particular set of countries likey because of some licensing issues, personal preferences, or some financial analysis.
  • There are even geographical factors like extreme cold, high terrain, or deep oceans which certainly don’t entertain video surfing.

Now one may be wondering how this factor is decided of showing the video to the viewers or not? The answer to this doubt lies in this methodology – YouTube Videos check the IP address to recognize and decide if one is allowed in that specific country whenever any video is requested from the clients’ end. Then simply all the legal rules and conditions are checked briskly and accordingly either the video is shown or that annoying message pops up.

How to Solve Error?

After going through the problem and its most possible causes, now it’s time to discuss the ways to bypass these conditions and peacefully enjoy the video. Some of the ways are:

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Cut and sorted:

It is considered as the easiest way to enjoy a blocked video through a simple omission of ‘watch?’ word from the URL. Consider a video URL like ‘https://youtube.com/watch?xyz‘ that has to be changed to ‘https://youtube.com/xyz‘ and entered into the browser.

It’s time for the VPN:

There are plenty of powerful and free VPNs available in the market, which simplifies our task by a simple drift of virtual location choosing. But this comes with a risk of malware sometimes.

Third-party utilities:

There are websites like savefrom, which let you download YouTube videos and store them on your computer, smartphones, or any other locations.

Google Translate:

It allows us to translate web page content into another language, side by side working as a free proxy server.

Browser Extention:

The browser extension like Hola is capable of helping you access the blocked sites.

Download the blocked video:

WonderFox Free HD Video Converter Factory is the perfect and the most reliable YouTube video downloader that can download blocked YouTube videos that too without a hitch.

IP/Web Proxy:

You can use the Web/ IP Proxy. There are plenty of sites/services available as a web proxy or free IP Proxy. Choose the IP Proxy and then the proxy plugin your web browser. Or if you are using a web proxy of Incloak, then insert the video URL on web proxy.

To sum up, I would like to say that even if this message irritated you a lot in the past, I sincerely hope it doesn’t worry you people in coming future because of these above solutions recommended to you. We hope these methods help you to watch the content you like – no matter where you are from.

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Dinesh is the founder of Sysprobs and written more than 400 articles. Enthusiast in Microsoft and cloud technologies with more than 15 years of IT experience.