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I watch Youtube on Apple TV so ad blockers don’t work. Instead I bought YouTube premium from India via VPN which costed me 1159 INR or 14USD for 12 months. Totally worth the time saved.

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You can use Yattee with Invidious or Piped on a Apple TV without any jailbreak

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629

Guide https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_u...

Can’t use my account with it though

Seems like you can, no?

https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Features#availability

The guide said "It doesn't support Google or YouTube accounts, but it does support Invidious and Piped accounts." so that's what I was referring to. Not sure.

Until they disable your account for a TOS violation. I’d only do this with a throwaway account in case the get zealous about this.

That’s my biggest reason not to try it.

Ya it’s a throwaway account and I could only loose $14 max.

> Instead I bought YouTube premium from India via VPN

Tangentially, I would sometimes buy Switch games from Nintendo's online Hong Kong store.

This cost slightly less (like, USD$57 instead of $60) than buying them from the US store. But, if you connect your Switch through a VPN to Hong Kong, your Hong-Kong-purchased game will unlock according to the local time in Hong Kong, getting you almost a full extra day compared to the US release date. (I actually used a VPN to Singapore; that's what's available on Digital Ocean. Still works.)

Talking about tangential matters your comment make me look up region locks because I remember buying japanese PS2 games only to find at home that they don't work in Europe. Turn out the PS2 was the last region locked console, wasn't aware they removed this restriction from latter consoles.

I did not know this either. I had three PS2s, three Gamecubes and three Xboxes for this reason. I used to spend hundreds of dollars to get them shipped from Japan overnight on launch day. Those were the days!

What happens if you set your Apple TV hosting device to use Ad Guard DNS, or your local LAN router to use the same?

https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

Will not work, yt is sending requests through https. The only way, as I saw recently would be a script that decodes https and Google's encoded objects and sets some flags to true, making yt believe you have premium or altering them in a way that will make the ad request invalid

It has nothing to do with HTTPS, it's just that ads are served from the same domain.

DNS level blocking doesn’t work for YouTube as far as I know.

I thought they already closed the loophole. You have to have a local card to be able to buy it.

Perhaps depends which country? I know someone who just did it with Venezuela and it worked fine.

When you are using the VPN, is all traffic going to and through India?

I need VPN just to buy the premium plan. For watching I don’t need VPN.

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