Many of our Chinese users use Shadowsocks to browse YouTube. But when you try to download a video, the program gives an error ( Connection timed out {1996} ) because it cannot connect to YouTube's servers.
To make it work, you need to enable the Global mode and make the following settings in the program.
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Open the settings dialog and go to the Network tab. Then, choose a proxy server depending on how you configured Shadowsocks.
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Usually, it's HTTP 127.0.0.1 port 10809 or SOCKS5 127.0.0.1 port 10808
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