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Afaik Youtube cannot legally display ads to some countries' residents, it could explain this behavior.



The above is true. Some countries don't get ads. Lucky them. Albania, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, Laos, Myanmar, Macau, Madagascar, Maldives, and Russia.

Use a proxy server/VPN and go ad free.


Presumably he lives in the same place as his girlfriend.


She may have created the account abroad.


Which begs the question: if you used a proxy server/VPN and created an account "overseas", would you get ads?


Why don't they serve placeholder unpaid noncommercial ads (YouTube features, government services) to such users instead?




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