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choo-t
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Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and str...
Afaik Youtube cannot legally display ads to some countries' residents, it could explain this behavior.
zeroadsever
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The above is true. Some countries don't get ads. Lucky them. Albania, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, Laos, Myanmar, Macau, Madagascar, Maldives, and Russia.
Use a proxy server/VPN and go ad free.
fastball
6 months ago
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Presumably he lives in the same place as his girlfriend.
choo-t
6 months ago
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She may have created the account abroad.
zeroadsever
6 months ago
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Which begs the question: if you used a proxy server/VPN and created an account "overseas", would you get ads?
anticensor
6 months ago
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Why don't they serve placeholder unpaid noncommercial ads (YouTube features, government services) to such users instead?
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