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Google has been voluntarily blocking ads here in Russia since 2022 due to the sanctions (from what I understand, so that monetization didn't translate into taxes paid to the government). I now live in a completely ads-free world for 2 years. So I wonder, if it's possible for people abroad to somehow proxy ad-related traffic through Russia so that Google itself blocked ads.

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Well VPN is off the table as almost all of them will be blocked by russia's regulators

Nice try, Putin. I'm not VPN-ing my traffic through Russia :)

The idea was to VPN only ad traffic (which would be automatically blocked anyway). Proxying video content through Russia would considerably increase latency.

If you can determine which traffic is ad traffic; why not just block it?

Well, I'm assuming that Youtube has some sort of a script to check if ad traffic is blocked, to detect ad blockers. Sure, you can write some extension which by-passes it, but then they can change their script a week later to do it slightly differently, to make ad blockers unusable again. Meanwhile for Russia, they have some sort of an exception, so that there can be no ad traffic at all, and you can still watch videos. And they maintain this exception themselves, so there would be no effort on our part.

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