[ipv6-wg] Users turning off IPv6 because of YouTube

Hello Ondřej,

> -----Original Message-----
> Hello list,
> 
> I've came across a new reason people are turning off IPv6 on their
> computers. Looks like GeoIP restrictions of YouTube are somehow broken
> making some videos playable over IPv4 but 'not accessible from your
> country' over IPv6.
> 
> For example this music video:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44XYEeD1A1U
> is perfectly playable from addresses:
> 147.32.0.0/16 and 195.113.0.0/16
> but not playable from 2001:718::/32
> 
> The network is deployed as native dualstack and both address families
> are correctly registered in the RIPE database to Prague.
> 
> I guess there's probably nothing we can do from the network operator's
> point of view. Anyone experiencing the same?

We're an satellite operator with customers from all over the world.
We had a similar issue. Google geo location for IPv6 seems to work on /32 boundaries by default (RIPE country/language and more specific RIPE entries seem to be ignored). This caused our /32 to move between various countries all over the world.
We're in the process of submitting our geo location information to google (You've to register your AS in order to get access to their ISP portal: https://isp.google.com/). We don't know if it will fix the problem for good as it's apparently just one of many factors.
If your users are all from CZ you might want to ask them to allow google search to access their phone GPS for positioning, that seems to be an important factor.

You might also want to try https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/ip but it didn't work for us.

Best Regards,
Freddy