I just tried this on a couple of videos and can confirm that it's working okay. I'd still prefer that region-blocked stuff stay off the sift altogether, but I suppose given the increasing amount of content that's being stupidly blocked, this was inevitable.

I want to bear your children.

I want to child your bears.

Cool, lets see how it works out.

It might be a good idea to add where in the world you can´t see a clip when you invoke * blocked.

Only downside of this seems to me that if I decide to filter out "blocked" content I will filter out all, and not just the ones that are blocked in my region.

bear rugs naked, with children a bit older than pre-teen...

fur pajamas
cognac
nitrous oxide

On the advanced search form you can now filter blocked videos as you can long and nsfw vids.

Well done, old chap. Spiffing good move.

no need to nitpick here, as I like the new *blocked idea...but

Should we be encouraging a "swap"

I only say this because generally the Region blocked video will come from a direct source, if it is later swapped out for a YouTube version, there is a good chance the youtube version will simply get pulled later, thus leaving us with a dead video.

Perhaps just encouraging users to post alternatives within the comment section and encouraging the video submitter to put a link to the alternative within the description will fix this...or something along those lines... you'know what I mean...bueller?

>> ^Fedquip:
no need to nitpick here, as I like the new blocked idea...but
Should we be encouraging a "swap"
I only say this because generally the Region blocked video will come from a direct source, if it is later swapped out for a YouTube version, there is a good chance the youtube version will simply get pulled later, thus leaving us with a dead video.
Perhaps just encouraging users to post alternatives within the comment section and encouraging the video submitter to put a link to the alternative within the description will fix this...or something along those lines... you'know what I mean...bueller?


Good idea about posting an alternate source without it being the embed. I for one will add an alt link where needed (if available) for my blocked vids.

and a *quality job by Lucky!

Awarding lucky760 with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by youdiejoe.

Cool. Thanks for that, Lucky! That's a damn fine solution to a problem that never affects me.

I'm so happy about this. Thank you.

>> ^Sarzy:
I just tried this on a couple of videos and can confirm that it's working okay. I'd still prefer that region-blocked stuff stay off the sift altogether, but I suppose given the increasing amount of content that's being stupidly blocked, this was inevitable.


Then, how will we know which videos that don't have region block? Also, we would lose a lot of good videos.

^Yeah! Stop hating, Sarzy!

I noticed since all the net traffic from Kuwait gets reverted back from the US I can actually watch Comedy Central sifts! But not the ones from other providers. Very weird.

Little smoke comin' out of Sifty's ears over here...does not compute.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Dog-Years-2004