In a recent Reddit forum 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 done by blocking ads, but by using a VPN to jump to Russia, because Russia currently does not allow ads to appear on YouTube.
Foreign netizens found a strange way to prevent any ads from appearing on YouTube
Reddit In the discussion thread below this article “Bro please they keep just making it worse, now its got a timer on it.”, a jularis user left a message saying “Set your VPN to Russia and the ads will disappear because the ads will not be displayed in the Russian region”:
I had never heard of this unpopular information before, so after reading it, I wanted to test it to see if it really would not display ads.
First of all, you must have a VPN that provides Russian servers. Not every VPN has it, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there are very few. And we have long recommended it. Ivacy There are Russian servers.
Open Ivacy In the server menu, scroll down to find the Russia server:
After the connection is successful, wait until YOUR LOCATION displays the location of Russia, and then you can open the YouTube website to test:
I take MKBHD’s “Tesla Solar Roof Review: Was it Worth it” as an example. Normally, there are ads at the beginning of this film, and ads will also be displayed on the right side:
After I went to Russia through Ivacy VPN, the ads disappeared and the video started playing directly. Even the ads on the right side disappeared:
This one will make it clearer. None of the recommended videos on the right have any ads:
When I returned to the YouTube homepage, there were 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.
However, one thing to note here is that some videos and channels on YouTube have regional playback restrictions. Some of them can be viewed in Taiwan, but it does not mean that they can be viewed in Russia through 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 happen on some official channels, and YouTubers are fine.
In addition, some people may want to say that the speed of VPN to Russia will be very slow. This also surprised me. The connection speed of Ivacy’s Russian server is actually quite good. I tested the download speed and it was more than 100Mbps. The upload speed was slower, only 2.46Mbps. The ping 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.
Source: KOCPC Chinese