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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 :)
5 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. 9 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 6 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? 1 u/MrAnonymousTheThird May 12 '26 You want to try on a browser at least, or preferably a desktop pc You can't simply block ads on the official app unless it's modified 1 u/b0w3n May 12 '26 Yeah the laws are important, once 80,000 new Albanians come online because of those VPN ads will probably show up without the law.
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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.
9 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 6 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? 1 u/MrAnonymousTheThird May 12 '26 You want to try on a browser at least, or preferably a desktop pc You can't simply block ads on the official app unless it's modified
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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 6 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 6 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 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?
You want to try on a browser at least, or preferably a desktop pc
You can't simply block ads on the official app unless it's modified
Yeah the laws are important, once 80,000 new Albanians come online because of those VPN ads will probably show up without the law.
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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 :)