Hey, past month (I guess) it was almost impossible to use Youtube and weirdest thing is that is because of WARP+. It takes 10-20 seconds to load video page and then another 10 seconds to start playing video, besides that video lags and buffers A LOT. Without WARP all the pages and videos loads instantly.
My internet is 500 mbps cable, Windows 11. I don’t run any other VPNs, and even with WARP+ on I get 450-470mbps on download in speed test.
Tried excluding youtube from split tunneling in WARP settings, but for some reason that didn’t work at all.
And also yt-dlp does not want to function properly, takes 5 minutes to start downloading and the speeds are underwhelming.
Maybe some of you encountered this and know how to solve it? Or atleast can someone tell me how exclude youtube from WARP, because I really don’t know why it’s not working for me.
It’s included or excluded based on the policies you configure. But it’s not indiscriminately excluded by any means. There isn’t any SSL/TLS decryption permitted because YouTube is one of the handful of sites that implement certificate pinning which makes man-in-the-middle attacks (which what SSL/TLS decryption effectively is but a trusted version).
There is a predefined ruleset that allows for adding a set of sites known to implement certificate pinning so administrators can easily add a “no decrypt” policy. But that doesn’t mean that some sites Warp excludes it.
The performance is likely better because SSL decryption is very resource intensive.
There are ways to extract the wireguard configuration file from the warp app and use the wireguard client to connect instead. This bypasses all the exclusion nonsense that warp app has in place. But since this is probably against TOS, you can look it up on google yourself. This will work for Windows or Android. Iphone doesn’t have exclusion since they are not able to implement it on IOS ecosystem.
