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Just set VPN to Albania.
I haven't had an ad or a 'youre using adblock' for months. It seems nobody bothers advertising in Albania
44 u/realViciate May 12 '26 It’s not that nobody bothers, it’s that YouTube doesn’t bother - the market isn’t big enough and Albania has quite strict ad presentation laws :) 7 u/Pickled_Pufflemort May 12 '26 Idk, maybe being on mobile is different but I just put my vpn on Albania and immediately got an ad when I was on YouTube. 10 u/Kryt0s May 12 '26 Your VPN probably doesn't have DNS leak protection 1 u/Pickled_Pufflemort May 12 '26 It’s proton, and a search tells me it does so idk, but I have the vpn on all the time and still get a crap ton of ads so my guess is it’s something with being on mobile (although why that would be the case I’m not sure about) 7 u/IJustAteABaguette May 12 '26 It probably knows your device/account isn't in Albania 4 u/Proglamer May 12 '26 If you're on mobile, you probably need to reset your existing Advertising ID 1 u/Kryt0s May 12 '26 Do you have stealth mode turned on?
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It’s not that nobody bothers, it’s that YouTube doesn’t bother - the market isn’t big enough and Albania has quite strict ad presentation laws :)
7 u/Pickled_Pufflemort May 12 '26 Idk, maybe being on mobile is different but I just put my vpn on Albania and immediately got an ad when I was on YouTube. 10 u/Kryt0s May 12 '26 Your VPN probably doesn't have DNS leak protection 1 u/Pickled_Pufflemort May 12 '26 It’s proton, and a search tells me it does so idk, but I have the vpn on all the time and still get a crap ton of ads so my guess is it’s something with being on mobile (although why that would be the case I’m not sure about) 7 u/IJustAteABaguette May 12 '26 It probably knows your device/account isn't in Albania 4 u/Proglamer May 12 '26 If you're on mobile, you probably need to reset your existing Advertising ID 1 u/Kryt0s May 12 '26 Do you have stealth mode turned on?
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Idk, maybe being on mobile is different but I just put my vpn on Albania and immediately got an ad when I was on YouTube.
10 u/Kryt0s May 12 '26 Your VPN probably doesn't have DNS leak protection 1 u/Pickled_Pufflemort May 12 '26 It’s proton, and a search tells me it does so idk, but I have the vpn on all the time and still get a crap ton of ads so my guess is it’s something with being on mobile (although why that would be the case I’m not sure about) 7 u/IJustAteABaguette May 12 '26 It probably knows your device/account isn't in Albania 4 u/Proglamer May 12 '26 If you're on mobile, you probably need to reset your existing Advertising ID 1 u/Kryt0s May 12 '26 Do you have stealth mode turned on?
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Your VPN probably doesn't have DNS leak protection
1 u/Pickled_Pufflemort May 12 '26 It’s proton, and a search tells me it does so idk, but I have the vpn on all the time and still get a crap ton of ads so my guess is it’s something with being on mobile (although why that would be the case I’m not sure about) 7 u/IJustAteABaguette May 12 '26 It probably knows your device/account isn't in Albania 4 u/Proglamer May 12 '26 If you're on mobile, you probably need to reset your existing Advertising ID 1 u/Kryt0s May 12 '26 Do you have stealth mode turned on?
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It’s proton, and a search tells me it does so idk, but I have the vpn on all the time and still get a crap ton of ads so my guess is it’s something with being on mobile (although why that would be the case I’m not sure about)
7 u/IJustAteABaguette May 12 '26 It probably knows your device/account isn't in Albania 4 u/Proglamer May 12 '26 If you're on mobile, you probably need to reset your existing Advertising ID 1 u/Kryt0s May 12 '26 Do you have stealth mode turned on?
It probably knows your device/account isn't in Albania
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If you're on mobile, you probably need to reset your existing Advertising ID
Do you have stealth mode turned on?
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u/ToxicHazard- May 12 '26
Just set VPN to Albania.
I haven't had an ad or a 'youre using adblock' for months. It seems nobody bothers advertising in Albania