In a recent forum on Reddit where screenshots of new YouTube tricks were shared, I found that a netizen shared a very unique method to stop YouTube from displaying any ads, and it was not by blocking ads, but by using a VPN springboard. The way to do it is to go to Russia, because Russia currently does not allow ads to appear on YouTube.
Foreign netizens have found a unique way to prevent any ads from appearing on YouTube
Reddit article "Bro please them keep just making it worse, now its got a timer on it." In the discussion thread below, a jularis user commented "Set your VPN to Russia and the ads will disappear because the ads will not be displayed in Russia." :
I have never heard of this unpopular information before, so after reading it, I wanted to test it to see if it really won’t display ads.
First of all, there must be a product that provides Russian Not every VPN has a server VPN, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there are very few. However, Ivacy, which we have recommended for a long time, has a Russian server.
Open the server menu of Ivacy and scroll down to find it. Russia server:
After the connection is successful, wait until YOUR LOCATION displays the location of Russia, then you can open the YouTube website to test:
I used MKBHD to watch this "Tesla Solar Roof Review: Was it Worth it" for example. Normally, there are ads at the beginning of this video, and ads will also be displayed on the right side:
But after I went to Russia through Ivacy VPN, the ads disappeared and the game started directly. Play the video, and even the ads on the right disappear:
This will be more clear, there are no ads in the recommended videos on the right:
When I go back to the YouTube homepage, there are no ads:
So, as the netizen said, ads are not allowed to be displayed in Russia. The representative said that you can watch YouTube videos completely free and without ads.
But there is one thing here It should be noted that some videos and channels on YouTube have regional playback restrictions. Some of them can be viewed in Taiwan. This does not mean that they can be viewed in Russia via VPN. Therefore, it is possible that after you VPN to Russia, the videos you want to watch cannot be found or cannot be played. , this situation is most likely to be encountered in some official channels, YouTubers are fine.
In addition, some people may want to say that VPN speed will become very slow when going to Russia. This also surprises me, Ivacy's The connection speed of the Russian server is actually pretty good. When I tested it, the download speed was over 100Mbps. The upload speed was slower, only 2.46Mbps. The ping speed also reached 325ms. I tried watching two or three YouTube videos, and they were all smooth:
The advertisements on both sides of the SPEEDTEST website in the picture above are not displayed, which means that the entire Google advertisement should not appear in Russia, so this method is also applicable to other audio and video websites.