How scarletadvisoryield/youtubezapret works
youtubezapret is a Windows traffic-circumvention bundle for restoring access to YouTube and other services without a VPN. Users either launch a chosen strategy manually or use service.bat to install and manage one; the strategy starts winws.exe, which uses WinDivert to intercept and filter traffic. The service menu also manages filters, lists, updates, hosts-file guidance, diagnostics, and strategy tests. README documents these capabilities, but no batch or PowerShell source excerpts were provided, so uncertain internal wiring is omitted.
Main entry points: service.bat Service menu · test zapret.ps1 Strategy tests · winws.exe winws engine · general.bat Manual strategies
Components 18
Strategy launch
- Manual strategies
general.bat - Strategy variants
general (ALT).bat - winws engine
bin/winws.exe - WinDivert driver
bin/WinDivert64.sys
Service management
- Service menu
service.bat - Windows services
- Hosts update
service.bat - Update check
service.bat
Filters and lists
- Game filter
service.bat - IPSet filter
service.bat - IP address set
lists/ipset-all.txt - Excluded IPs
lists/ipset-exclude.txt - Domain lists
lists/list-general.txt
Diagnostics and tests
- Diagnostics
service.bat - Strategy tests
utils/test zapret.ps1 - Test targets
utils/targets.txt - DPI checks
utils
Other components
- Windows user
Connections 17
- Windows user → Manual strategies: launches
- Windows user → Strategy variants: chooses
- Manual strategies → winws engine: starts
- Strategy variants → winws engine: starts
- winws engine → WinDivert driver: uses
- Windows user → Service menu: opens
- Service menu → Windows services: installs or removes
- Service menu → Game filter: switches
- Service menu → IPSet filter: switches
- IPSet filter → IP address set: checks against
- Service menu → IP address set: updates
- Service menu → Hosts update: offers
- Service menu → Update check: runs
- Service menu → Diagnostics: runs
- Service menu → Strategy tests: runs
- Strategy tests → Test targets: tests
- Strategy tests → DPI checks: offers