There's a sneaky way to watch YouTube ad-free without a Premium subscription

It's an indictment of the current YouTube user experience that ad-free access is now seen as some internet Holy Grail

Fed up with skipping YouTube ads? Good news: we've spotted a sneaky way to watch YouTube ad-free – something that, before the avalanche of commercials, used to just be known as using YouTube

There's no need to cough up a minimum of $7.99/£12.99⁠ per month for a YouTube Premium subscription... and no need to buy a dodgy ad-blocking app that probably won't work.

Here's the trick: You can watch YouTube ad-free in Albania by using a VPN to connect to an Albanian server.

How to watch ad-free YouTube without paying (it works)

YouTube serves no ads in Albania due to its smaller market size. And while some Redditors have spotted the occasional ad, we tried it ...