Youtube is one of the biggest websites on the internet and more than billions of minutes worth of video are watched every day and millions of videos uploaded on a daily basis. The videos are available to all irrespective of their location or language but most of you must have come across an error on Youtube saying “The Uploader Has Not Made This Video Available In Your Country”.
The error is very normal and is not from your end if you are wondering but there is something you can do to fix this error and in this post, we are going to see how!
Uploader Has Not Made This Video Available In Your Country is an error that the user gets because the uploader of the video has area restricted it. Youtube offers various filters while uploading the video and one of them is restricting the video for some certain locations around the world and this is what causes the issue.
Certain media agencies or organizations or even media agencies area restricts their video for locations or countries the video is not intended for. Like BBC might restrict a piece of crime news for the viewers of other countries as they don’t want others to see it or maybe they have some premium content that they want to make available for some certain country only.
Most frequent videos with this kind of errors are Music videos or some Tv program. Premium content is almost age and area restricted which causes this error at other users end.
Fixing the “Uploader Has Not Made This Video Available In Your Country” error can be fixed easily by using some free normal methods and in this post, I will be posting some methods using which you can fix this error easily.
How To Fix The Uploader Has Not Made This Video Available In Your Country
1) Use VPN
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network and using a VPN you can reroute your IP address to some other country thus accessing the country restricted content on Youtube as well.
There are various VPN software available online and there are free as well as premium VPN software available online. You can choose them according to your needs and budget and using VPN is a sure shot way to fix the “Video Not Available In Your Country” error. You guys can check my list of top 10 VPN available online and choose one of them.
2) Download Restricted Videos
This method is one of the most basic, free and easiest ways to bypass restricted videos on Youtube. There are various websites available online where you can download Youtube videos from, all you need to do is paste the link of the video there and the tool will download the video for you. You can use keepvid.com for this purpose, I will be listing some more websites soon in a new blog post.
3) Changing The URL
This is probably the easiest way to make the restricted videos available in your country.All you need to do is make some changes in the video url and the error will be gone and you will no longer find the “Uploader Has Not Made This Video Available In Your Country”.Follow these steps:-
- Open the restricted Youtube video and go to the address bar and select the Url.
- The URL of the video will look something like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpDgeBK9bg4)
- Now just edit the link and replace the (watch?v) with (/v/).
- Now try reloading the link and the error will be gone and the video will be playable now.
So these are some of the methods using which you can fix the Video not available in your country error. We will be updating the post regularly and will be adding a few more methods to fix this problem. Till then use these methods and let us know how they are working for you, Thanks!