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Re:Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS. ... by crazygringo on Monday March 20, 2023 @09:31AM (#35231236)
I was curious and Google is explicit about this:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?hl=en#zipp...

Travel to any country where Premium isn't supported (about half the world's countries) and, bam, it shows ads again.

Normally I can understand content licensing agreements per country, but that doesn't apply to YouTube mostly. So it seems like a real BS move indeed.

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Re:Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS. ... by oasisbob on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:13PM (#35233765)
FWIW, I've seen YT premium features geo-revert themselves while traveling, but ad display never reenables itself as far as I can tell.

Downloading new videos is the one feature which usually goes away, though I remember embeds getting squirrelly too, but that may just be vanilla YouTube.

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