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human
What happens when you disconnect from a vpn while streaming media?

Scenario: You're connected to a VPN and streaming a youtube video.  You disconnect from the VPN...the video appears to play uninterrupted. 

Does the streaming connection automatically reconnect before it runs out of buffer when it's network context changes, or is there something else at work? What's technically going on underneath this scenario?
gpt
Depends, a lot of media will NOT keep playing. If this media is on a public page, as with your example of a youtube video, then it will simply send a request and download the video as normal, but a lot of content which requires authentication will fail to load and require you to login again. If a video does not require any authentication, just about anyone can grab any piece of that video, so it really shouldn't matter if you switch, but content which requires authentication will most likely 403 you.