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A comment on Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping Ads from Profobuf. Parent comment

Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by choo-t on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @08:22AM (#43398551)
Afaik Youtube cannot legally display ads to some countries' residents, it could explain this behavior.
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by fastball on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @08:53AM (#43398839)
Presumably he lives in the same place as his girlfriend.
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by choo-t on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:20AM (#43399128)
She may have created the account abroad.
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by zeroadsever on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @02:14PM (#43402754)
Which begs the question: if you used a proxy server/VPN and created an account "overseas", would you get ads?
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by zeroadsever on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @02:11PM (#43402711)
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.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by anticensor on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:10PM (#43407634)
Why don't they serve placeholder unpaid noncommercial ads (YouTube features, government services) to such users instead?
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