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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. Tota

by vinni2 3y ago

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.

tananaev 3y ago
I thought they already closed the loophole. You have to have a local card to be able to buy it.
- qingcharles 3y ago
  Perhaps depends which country? I know someone who just did it with Venezuela and it worked fine.
haunter 3y ago
You can use Yattee with Invidious or Piped on a Apple TV without any jailbreak https://github.com/yattee/yattee https://github.com/yattee/yattee https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629 Guide https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_up_and_use_yattee_to_watch_youtube/ https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_u...
- k8sToGo 3y ago
  Can’t use my account with it though
  - thegeekpirate 3y ago
    Seems like you can, no? https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Features#availability https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Features#availability
    - k8sToGo 3y ago
      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.
thaumasiotes 3y ago
> 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.)
- gryn 3y ago
  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.
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    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!
microtonal 3y ago
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.
- k8sToGo 3y ago
  That’s my biggest reason not to try it.
- vinni2 3y ago
  Ya it’s a throwaway account and I could only loose $14 max.
defrost 3y ago
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 https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
- Moldoteck 3y ago
  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
  - predmijat 3y ago
    It has nothing to do with HTTPS, it's just that ads are served from the same domain.
- vinni2 3y ago
  DNS level blocking doesn’t work for YouTube as far as I know.
Zeetah 3y ago
When you are using the VPN, is all traffic going to and through India?
- vinni2 3y ago
  I need VPN just to buy the premium plan. For watching I don’t need VPN.

by vinni2 3y ago

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.

tananaev 3y ago

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

qingcharles 3y ago
Perhaps depends which country? I know someone who just did it with Venezuela and it worked fine.

haunter 3y ago

You can use Yattee with Invidious or Piped on a Apple TV without any jailbreak https://github.com/yattee/yattee https://github.com/yattee/yattee https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629 Guide https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_up_and_use_yattee_to_watch_youtube/ https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_u...

k8sToGo 3y ago
Can’t use my account with it though
- thegeekpirate 3y ago
  Seems like you can, no? https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Features#availability https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Features#availability
  - k8sToGo 3y ago
    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.

thaumasiotes 3y ago

> 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.)

gryn 3y ago
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.
- qingcharles 3y ago
  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!

microtonal 3y ago

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.

k8sToGo 3y ago
That’s my biggest reason not to try it.
vinni2 3y ago
Ya it’s a throwaway account and I could only loose $14 max.

defrost 3y ago

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

Moldoteck 3y ago
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
- predmijat 3y ago
  It has nothing to do with HTTPS, it's just that ads are served from the same domain.
vinni2 3y ago
DNS level blocking doesn’t work for YouTube as far as I know.

Zeetah 3y ago

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

vinni2 3y ago
I need VPN just to buy the premium plan. For watching I don’t need VPN.