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you can report to Google if your IP gets recognized in the wrong country. i fixed several bad geoips this way, google takes around 1-2weeks after a report to fix it.
https://support.google.com/websearch/workflow/9308722
ok, i've done this. i remember i had around $20 in credits for a proxy site i hadn't used in a while (webshare), so i paid about $8/year for 10 proxies, 6 in albania and 4 in ukraine, to test which ones worked and which didn't.
it worked perfectly. i used GOST to bridge nginx to my albania proxy, and now youtube finally works without ads with no vpn needed and just my adguard dns setup. FINALLYYYY 😭😭
4vps.su is less than $11/year in russia. i don't recall albania not having any ads though? they might have less due to lower demand but they aren't sanctioned or anything like russia, belarus and iran
Im using it right now with zero ads. i've switched from Moldova to Albania in the past with ControlD, and its basically always have worked.
I could use a proxy to block ads, but that might slow down streaming. Plus, YouTube might block me if it sees traffic coming from a data center IP. What I do instead is run my own private Invidious instance. Since I always keep my main Mac (an M4 Pro mini) turned on, I run Invidious on it. Then, I access it from other devices over the internet through a VPS, using a Tailscale connection. It would have been simpler with a Cloudflare Tunnel, but I’m worried they might ban me if they find out I’m using their free plan for streaming. Also, because Invidious runs on my home internet, YouTube is less likely to flag or block me.
Why not use uBlock Origin/uBlock Origin Lite or Revanced? They're both free. Loading YouTube through a proxy can cause videos to load slower.
He sure have some restrictions on the apps he can install on his device which allows only for the official youtube app to be installed (probably samsung tv with TizenOS).
YouTube now slows down the streaming if it detects adblockers anyway.
Oh that's true, but I'm pretty sure a DNS adblocker like pihole can solve that, correct me if I'm wrong.
No, it doesn’t. The only solution is using a VPN/proxy from a country that doesn’t display ads like Albania.
because it’s the simplest (once it’s set up lol), most compatible, and most cost-effective setup for my situation.
as for videos loading slower, here’s what i get: https://streamable.com/emlw9r
even though i’m almost 10,000 km away from albania, videos load basically instantly for me.
ublock origin also doesn’t work in youtube’s native apps. i use an iphone, ipad, apple tv, and an lg tv.
on iphone and ipad, my only real options are:
1. sideload uyou+ with a free dev cert and refresh it every 7 days
2. buy a certificate from a signing service like krava or signulous
for apple tv i have to buy a cert if i want to sideload youtube at all. doing it without a paid cert is either impossible or way too much hassle, even with krava’s simplified process.
both options are terrible. i’m not going to refresh apps every 7 days, thats annoying to do. i tried sidestore with livecontainer but it was extremely unreliable. auto refresh randomly stops working. sometimes it would stop working without warning or the app would break entirely.
as for paid certs, apple has been cracking down hard. i had an official apple developer cert ($100 per year) and they revoked it even though i used ppq from the start. i also had certs from krava and those were revoked on all my devices too. once a cert is revoked, the device basically gets blacklisted, so i have to wait before getting a new one.
on the lg tv, you can’t sideload modified youtube clients or really sideload anything on webos im pretty sure.
i pay about $16 per year for my incognet server and around $8 per year for the proxies. i could pay as little as $14 per year if i used my greencloudvps, but incognet is closer to me so i prefer it. or i could pay about $8 per year if i selfhosted, not counting electricity.
Which is what i’m using. However an adblock dns cannot directly block youtube ads inside the native app, but you can use a custom dns setup to work around how youtube serves ads, which gives the same end result even if the method is different.
the way I did it is i have adguard home running on an incognet VPS in the us. i set it up to act like a transparent proxy by using dnsmasq to point all domains to my vps ip. then i used nginx with stream mapping to spot youtube traffic and route it through an albanian socks5 proxy with gost. everything else goes through the us vps normally. this makes every site see my incognet VPS as my ip while youtube sees an albanian one. no vpn apps needed on my iphone or tv, only the native dns profile.
VPS in Russia + 3x-ui vless + WARP - Best and cheapest way to Youtube no ads.
Is there any chance to have a guide how to achieve this? I am not using youtube directly but just curious from network perspective how it works.
Just buy YouTube Premium. Depending on your country it's super cheap. I pay like $3/mo or something and have a YouTube experience that far exceeds fooling around with workarounds.
If you're paying money to get an ad-free experience, why not go direct to the source? That way YouTube remains consistently usable.
because youtube fingerprint your mind to develop AI. They kept you in a mental niche to obtain a better scientific user case to study. If you paid an account, you are automatically linked.
The only way is a paid youtube gateway to mix the metadata flow.
I used youtube many month without account, they succed to relink my identity (old account feed) just with my usual youtube feed (they fingerprint it like a browser parameters).
It's a mind jail and i never paid a service like this way.
AI will kill youtube in different way
youtube premium costs $13.99 a month where i live 🥹
Sure, I was actually already working on a simple shell script to fully automate the installation of the setup to share. I’ll share it soon.
Doesn't Google use QUIC in their YouTube app, making SNI-based routing impossible?
Or do you just drop UDP/443 globally and it falls back to HTTP2?
Oh yeah, too much. $3.50/mo here. Guess that's a good thing about moving halfway across the globe. Cheap YouTube Premium and cheap Netflix.
well, its not impossible. pretty sure it falls back to http2
Here in Finland it's like 14.99 euros per month. So quite pricey as well
But are you blocking QUIC? No reason to fall back otherwise.
with firewall rules, no.
however my setup forces the fallback. Since my local dnsmasq setup rewrites the A records for youtube.com and googlevideo.com to point to my VPS IP (not googles), the youtube app tries to initiate QUIC with my server.
my nginx instance is configured to listen only on 443/tcp. nothing is listening on 443/udp so packets are dropped. once it falls back, it reads the sni and routes it through gost tunnel to albania
👍🏻 makes sense, didn't consider you were using a custom DNS. Was thinking about implementing this on my Wireguard VPN server, just directly routing through Albania depending on SNI, in which case you would have to block QUIC.
This would be awesome, more ppl would find it useful and use this. Thanks
One thing that YouTube introduced over the past few months was an ad-blocker annoyance feature.
If it detected you're using an ad blocker, instead of 10-15 seconds of pre-video ads, you get 10-15 seconds of pause, with a popup saying "loading, disable your ad blocker" before video finally starts.
You use to be able to "travel" to a few places to start your subscription (Argentina, Turkey, India, etc) and get 90% off most of the EU/US country subscription rates. This required a VPN once a year - free ones worked too. They have since starting detecting this and disabling subscriptions where your country doesn't match.
oddly enough i’ve never had that popup asking me to disable my ad blocker on my pc (ublock origin).
Why don't you guys block ads from your router?
btw i just tested mine ru vps from LandVPS and it wont show any ads in my mobile youtube app. I got mine for 8.3$/y last year but i think its more expensive atm..
im paying $8/year for proxies in albania and ukraine so its similar pricing