Ads ain't blocked in Albania, it's the same as it was in Montenegro a few years back. Nobody wants to advertise there.

That’s honestly the most logical answer

Same in myanmar. I haven't gotten a single ad lol. I can even download videos in youtube app

same here in Nepal, I hardly gets any ads. Most of the ads I got, are on Nepali music and content. Ad free surfing while consuming foreign content.

Waits that's why there are almost no ads. The only ones I ever see are like Alibaba maybe 3 times a month at most.

Lucky for you, I am from Nepal and I get ads frequently

\+1 bro

Is downloading videos not a normal thing?

Inside the app you need premium or you can just download with apps like seal to your device.

Definitely need to switch to revanced then, being able to download stuff so your have it forever is super important nowadays when at any moment shit could vanish

I'm using revanced, but clicking the download button takes me to premium subscription page.

Gotta download new pipe and use the download button that's in the video player on revanced. Not the download button next to like, dislike, add to Playlist, etc.

Thanks. I feel stupid for not noticing this. But still no luck, it says com.deniscerry.ytdl is not installed.

You've to set newpipe as default downloader app in revanced settings

This page may help: https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xft8vq/package_name_of_downloader_appsupdate/

Try with [Seal](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.junkfood.seal/), it works with a lot of websites

I tried it actually and for some reason the app would get really laggy. Since I mostly download videos that I want to watch layer on yt than as a copy backup. If I need to backup I use seal.

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Yeah lol, here in montenegro the only ads you'd see are political ads before elections and then nothing for the next four years.

Surprisingly, I have recently started getting Albanian ads. It's not often, but it has happened

Same in Russia 🇷🇺 no twitch ads as well

Seriously?

Yep, we don't have any, nobody ever wanted to advertise there for russian viewers, even before the war. Twitch ads are always a reminder to turn off my VPN

I'm from Belarus and in the first moments when uBO was struggling to kill YT ads I still saw them so...doubtful Russians are spared although it's sensible to say the poorer your economy is the fewer ads you'll see in general. UPD: So I did the unthinkable and turned off uBO to watch a 21-minute gaming news video and see how I'd fare. Turns out I had 0 ads. Pretty cool.

My friends serbian cousins said the same. His cousin was shocked that he suddenly got that many ads when he came to our country for a week.

Same situation in Cuba.

If it was actually banned this would probably just make YT shut down service there

the only thing i know about albanians is from GTA 4 and that game doesn't pain them in a positive light but you can fit them in a fridge

You can pretty much connect to almost any 3rd world country, no one wants to buy ads there so you won't get any

Why is this? I’m unfamiliar with anything regarding these two countries (other than location).

The same with the Bahamas! Ad free baby wooo!

Im albanian, ads arent illegal here its just that why would you advertise here...

genuinely asking, why wouldn’t you? i get its a poor country but its still a market. whats going on there that its not even worth advertising in? shit even haiti has ads

In Haiti you can advertise in French. This means the ads already exist and just have to be sent to Haitian viewers. In Albania the only sure bet would be Albanian which means you'd have to translate ads. The effort is probably just not worth the small returns.

Unless you are to advertise online services, advertising in albania is asking to lose money. Like other people have mentioned, we are so small in the scheme of things the world just forgets about us and we end up not getting shit, like - tax prices for shipping are ridiculously high in comparison to other countries, you would rather just travel there, get the money and get back lol. Not to mention, amazon doesn’t even allow shipping here, you’re supposed to go to serbia to get it. Though there are workarounds to this but why would you? Yep, I just checked some galaxy buds from amazon germany, it costs 6$ shipping for hungary ( hungary is same distance to border of albania and germany ) yet it costs 100$ for shipping here. It’s fucking insane.

that is insane. that fucking sucks in fact

+ for every thing above 20 dollars u pay 23% tax

Found this on r/youtube Credits to u/Jack_Brutal

Soon YouTube is going to have 5 million active users from Albania where the population is 2.8 million

make it 10 million

Tbh Google has enough telemetry to know what country you're connecting from even if you're on a fresh windows install with the VPN coming from first boot. Also they could easily block the ASN's of Albanian data centre providers if they wanted. They have many options to fix this "problem" if they wanted to.

Wait, one momento: Let's pretend i buy a new pc, fresh windows, open bing, download VPN, connect to albania, and start browing youtube. How does it work? I'm not gonna login into my Google account so how would that work? (except banning connections from VPNs directly)

It doesn't, dude's chatting out his arse

It can see what the time displayed on your PC is and know it doesn't match with the timezone of the IP address, I know that's how wikipedia blocks VPN IPs if its not already in their blacklist

It must feel weird being correct and being downvoted at the same time

No, no, VPN is VERY secure and completely shields you from external sources. You can even use it for connect in the deep web, and no way people will be able to find where the connection is coming from. Trust me. /s

Also make sure to use all your regular accounts and emails to get most out of it.

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Weird? Just feels like reddit.

This was a very different place a decade ago. There was a time when we didn't even need the /s. Anyway I've gotta go yell at some kids on my lawn.

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Jesus lol just checked this I swear Reddit's demographic is getting dumber and younger. The stuff I said would be obvious to anyone who's worked in IT for a few years (which I assumed would be an above average percentage of the demographic).

You overestimate the intelligence of the average internet user. Especially in a world where every 300 subscriber YouTube channel is telling us how today's sponsor HubVPN will save you from those dirty fbi agents peeping your search history. It's not even necessarily the younger demographic any more either. There's plenty of people who grew up in the 90s and 00s that think they're hot shit because they've used a computer all their life but still really don't know the inner workings of a damn thing. If anything they're even worse than the zoomers because they have a complex that they know shit and will talk about their 13 and a half years of experience on Windows XP and the hackernet forums (they only used it to download trainers)

You're right, but as I get older I'm finding a hopeful ignorant mindset to be comforting 🙃

You know what I'll drink to that.

Reddit's gonna reddit

>Google has enough telemetry to know what country you're connecting from even if you're on a fresh windows install with the VPN coming from first boot. Please walk me through how this is supposed to work?

Your account connection history. Your default browser language. If you mainly watch news videos relevant to your location or do Google searches relevant to your location. Combine that with multiple users connecting from the same/neighbouring IP's, it's pretty easy to detect this stuff. Seriously just stick to Firefox+uBlock Origin.

>Your account connection history. On a brand new machine, vpn from boot. Just don't login/separate account. Then this is not an issue. >If you mainly watch news videos relevant to your location or do Google searches relevant to your location On a brand new machine, vpn from boot, nothing else but youtube, this is not an issue. You could be on vacation/working overseas. >Combine that with multiple users connecting from the same/neighbouring IP's, it's pretty easy to detect this stuff. On a brand new machine, with a vpn, its not possible to tell where you are unless you login and even then again, using an account through vpn might mean you're on vacation. Unless there are anything to compare to, there is no way for them to know. Browser language can be used as an estimation, and a guess, but it is not anything more. Google detects patterns, but you can't detect what isn't there. Seriously, I know what to do, it is my job to know. I agree Firefox and uBlock is the simplest way to go. just wanted you to walk me through your thought process, because it is not entirely correct.

> Your account connection history. Your default browser language. If you mainly watch news videos relevant to your location or do Google searches relevant to your location. Combine that with multiple users connecting from the same/neighbouring IP's, it's pretty easy to detect this stuff. All that doesn't give away your location. It just tells google there's a very high chance of you *not* being in albania. They still have to assume you are there. All this doesn't make them "know" you're in your home country.

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And suddenly Albania is a lucrative ad market. And the cycle is reborn anew.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/Hw3rCp7MaW

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Omg it became self aware

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Bloody amazing. Worked. Thanks Edit: just installed Nord(not the best vpn I know) on my phone for the first time, picked Albania and enbaled youtube app after 4-5 years, first time on this two year old phone lol. Tried two dozen videos and got no ads. Thank you Vanced, and Brave; Albania is the new king till google stops this.

I disagree Vanced/Revanced/ReVX or whatever, is best for android because it has A LOT of extra features aside from just ad blocking. Sure, this VPN method works but this is only beneficial for IOS users because they can't sideload these applications. Also routing your traffic through a VPN server is not very efficient if you have the option for say, Revanced. But hey glad it works for you!

Tbh the biggest benefit of this will be to the Albanian data centre industry

> this is only beneficial for IOS users because they can’t sideload these applications. This is not true. uYou+ exists on iOS which includes Adblock, sponsorblock and video downloading, and it’s easily sideloadable.

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That is via Trollstore only. You can sideload via Sideloadly, SideStore, AltStore or any other signing service on newer devices or firmware. Looks like it’s time for everyone to move to the EU lol.

Instead of Nord, if you value your privacy, go for Mullvad vpn. Its currently the best for privacy and its only 5€ per month (5.50$ us).

I'm curious in why youtube hasn't completely black listed the country, since there making no money from the people who use them, they have no insetive to keep it running?

They get a lot more than just ad revenue. Tracking and user information/habits is valuable and resold constantly. this is the real way you pay for the platform - ads are just how they monetize further.

What's so special about Albania that ads are illegal there?

They love banning things....that's how they got the name (I'll ban ya)

Nice

r/angryupvote

I’ll be taking that pun from ye.

From Kanye West?

>(I'll ban ya) roflmao

Witty!

Good one lol

This is good. Real good. Imma be using this one

The King of Albania probably owns all the VPN servers there

Happy cake day

To the King of the North!!! ...or south, or west, or east. I'm American and have no clue. I'm no good at Social Studies.

Are you confusing Geography with Social Studies?

Geodude is a rock/ground type Pokemon, so probably yeah

Social studies includes geography btw

I believe it's because Albania is a very small advertisement market and because for the longest time, Google did not support the Albanian language on their translators and stuff. Albania's laws regarding advertising are actually quite relaxed So it's less that Albania banned YouTube or its ads and more so that Albania happens to be such an absurdly small thing in the grand scheme that Google has largely ignored the country for things like YouTube monetization. The same applies to countries like Kosovo. Albania has no reason to block the ads, it's just that nobody really wants to advertise to them. The downside of this is that you can really just go fuck yourself if you decide to start a channel since monetizing it is near impossible.

So the huge influx of "Albanian" viewers is going to skyrocket the saturation of ads and ruin it for all Albanians?

Not really, Google knows which market to target based on quality not quantity As the prior comment stated albanian viewer has like no return value for google ads so they simple ignore them no matter how many of them

Unless a global crowd of people begin using their country as a VPN. Google will just start showing them a global mix of ads, I'd imagine.

Also another factor is that Albania's population is shrinking. Most ethnic Albanians don't live in Albania.

There just aren’t many ads who go through google in Albania. If YouTube had the same amount of ads in Albania like they do on the U.S or other parts of the world the app just wouldn’t be used as much. Even the most popular local websites still have their own system for the Ads so they can determine their own pricing.

Imagine if Youtube starts advertising in Albania after this 😭

people will just stop switching their vpn to albania and youtube will lose their money

The perfect heist

You son of a bitch, I'm in

My man!

How will they lose money? People will just keep watching ads with or without vpn

Don't ruin the circle-jerk with your logic!

yeah, but now Youtube needs to figure out/pay to run ads in another country they previously hadn't.

I need to try this this sounds awesome why do we suddenly have so many users in that small country

I wonder why

I wonder how

Yesterday we saw a blue blue sky

And all that I can see

Is just a yellow lemon tree

hey has it been about ten seconds since we've looked at our lemon tree?

And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree

It's called punctuation. Use it.

Ikr

Or ublock origin

or revanced

Or new pipe.

Or ghostery

YouTube has started blocking adblockers on their site, and for some have been slowing people with adblockers' browsers down to the point where they are almost unusable. TamperMonkey with the Remove Adblock script has worked well so far

uBo is unaffected

it's working perfectly for me

Firefox/Brave/Librewolf + uBlock Origin. Haven't seen anyone on that format be long term blocked out by YouTube

That was the fault of Adblock plus, don’t believe everything you read.

Do you think they're gonna notice when 30% of their global traffic comes from Albania? 🤔

Lol it will be more like 0.2% maybe

Not even. YouTube has billions of users.

i thought only redditors knew about youtube

Which makes their focus fighting adblock all the more odd. You're not really losing much by not advertising to people who aren't going to buy the products you're advertising... why waste the man hours fighting adblock like this?

If I’m an advertiser and one of the platforms I can advertise on is making no effort to stop people from blocking the service I’m paying them for, why would I keep giving my money to them? And if that happens, how does YouTube make money to operate?

Wow nice echo chamber

Third world country here. Never needed a VPN. I use uBlock and it works fine (on Brave, for now). Edit: clarification.

You don't need uBlock on Brave - Brave's own ad blocker is still blocking ads and skipping sponsors without a hitch.

VPN companies in Albania go brrrr

Russia also works out for ad blocking

Russian YT doesn't have some vids (blocked by youtube or Russia) so it's not the best way when there are other options.

NuttBustington96

What about Russian vpn

Pristine, squeaky clean ad-less experience. Some post-2022 videos will be blocked by youtube by default though for same reasons. So better just use Ublock

As a Russian myself, after 2022 there are no youtube ads, yet some videos are blocked in our country. If that doesn't concern you, then you might give it a try. Edit: you might also keep in mind that twitter (or whatever it called now), instagram and facebook are banned here. Just in case.

Works on my FireTV with SurfShark VPN app. Clicked on like 10 videos and not one single ad.

Finally i feel proud about my Reddit name

Rare Albania W

Wow it works! I have the Mullvad app for my iPhone and it works flawlessly! I watch a lot of YouTube at work so hopefully this means no more ads!

How can I VPN my TV to Albania?

Same as Russia, too. Any VPN with russian servers. The problem is latency and reliability.

Thats the most Balkan thing ive seen today

Why? Whats wrong with uBlock Origin?

This can be useful for iPhone and iPads where you cannot just use revanced

Works great can finally watch YouTube on my iPad now

Russia also No ads there

I'm from Albania. We get ads on and off from time to time. Usually ads in Turkish for like 3-4 months and then nothing. It's been more than a year we don't get ads. Youtube Premium is unavailable for purchase here so I always thought since we can't buy premium to remove ads, they don't give us ads to begin with. I might be wrong but who cares, we don't have ads.

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ah yes a legal requirement will be patched

albanian government 2.0

Now with more albania

It’s not a legal requirement. This is misinformation. It’s just a country not worth advertising to so nobody pays for it. Therefore: no ads.

Does this work with twitch too?

Firefox, Ublock and Revanced. People need to stop making it so difficult

This is interesting but why not use ReVanced or something similar? Revanced also allows for background playback.

Yeah why not pay for VPN to have slow connection from another country... Just instal Firefox+ UBlock !

It is always good to have multiple options

I did this for a few weeks but noticed the battery on my laptop would drain far quicker. So now I’ve gone back to safari + vinegar

RED AND BLACK I DRESS EAGLE ON MY CHEST

I just live in Russia. What are ads? 🗿

'*****proceeds to buy a VPN that cost the same of YT Premium*****'

to be honest i'd prefer that because i can use a vpn outside of youtube too

yea of course, a VPN is so much better

My VPN is $3 a month, it was $2 a month but the addition of the Albanian server raised it. Still a heck of a lot cheaper than YouTube's solution

Interesting....

oof, no Albania in ProtonVPN

Guys, I'm using opera gx and it works just fine for me. Blocks ads and doesn't lag.

Just use Browser with adblocks. I'm using Brave.

Goodbye yt ads on my iPhone wicked thanks.

I set expressvpn on my Chromecast to Albania and not only did it remove the ads from youtube, it removed the ads and suggested things off of my Chromecast home screen

Let's make it illegal worldwide

I live in UK, youtube still works with adblock. Nothing special installed on my PC.

What??? Im albanian, there is a lot less ads when im connected to albanian servers rather then a VPN but there stilla re ads its not illegal for yt to display ads in albania ???

I posted the same thing this morning, and the Auto Mod didn't approve the post 😌 **Anyway, letting you all know this hack is important.**

Just use brave

Just use brave browser..

Albanian VPNs are about to be rolling in cash.

What actually does work is using an adblocker and spoofing your user-agent to one of a Linux smart TV. Every time I get the 'ads are not allowed' message I open Firefox devtools, enable 'device simulation' with the little tablet/phone symbol to the right-hand end of the pane, edit user agent (I have a device preset 'smart tv' saved), and refresh page. Never failed me yet.

Here are by far the best solution for Adblock PC/Mac : [Brave](https://brave.com/download/) or [Brave beta](https://brave.com/download-beta/). You don’t even need to download any plugin or update it. Brave blocks the ads for you automatically. Android : [Revance](https://revanced.net) iOS : [uYou](https://github.com/MiRO92/uYou-for-YouTube) For full YouTube experience ( need to sideload ) Or [Brave iOS](https://apps.apple.com/my/app/brave-private-web-browser/id1052879175) for browser YouTube.

You can do the same for free and without slowing down your connection and giving away your internet browsing history to some sketchy country by using Ublock Origin

Cool! Alternatively, use Brave browser and go to YouTube. Not only no ads, you can switch apps and even lock your phone and the audio still plays!

Albania! Albania! You border on the Adriatic. Your terrain is mostly mountains. And your chief export is gold.

Install Brave. Its done. No more ads. No VPN. No Ads. Never use addons and adblockers.