I’m getting sick of YouTube ads being 1 minute until you can skip, but then I remembered I’m sure NordVPN has an ad blocker which I could potentially use.
I tried looking online on how to enable but all I got was to turn threat protection lite on and it should work, unfortunately that’s not the case. Any tips on what I need to do to get ads blocked on YouTube via NordVPN? If not, does any have any other ways of blocking ads on YouTube via Firestick?
The only way I’ve found to block YouTube ads on Firestick/FireTV is to sign up for YouTube premium, which unfortunately doesn’t still block all ads 
Threat Protection will not block Youtube ads as they are not harmful or dangerous. NordVPN is designed to combat malicious advertisements, banners, and pop-ups.
All you got to do is hop in an Albania, Moldova or Myanmar server and you’ll be good. Let me know if that helps.
OP use the Smartube app😉
If you have NordVPN on your firestick (this also works if you have NordVPN on your cell phone and/or desktop computer), right before you use the YouTube app, switch the country to Albania. Albania allows YouTube, but it doesn’t allow ads and commercials in the videos. So you can watch videos 100% with no interruption or commercials on YouTube. Then when you are done, just switch back to whatever country you normally use. Since it is all through NordVPN, no matter which country you use it is safe, but sometimes if I forget to change it back when I’m done with YouTube and try to go on one of my paid streaming services, I will just get an error warning within the app that says, “Sorry, we are not currently available in your viewing area.” So I just have to exit the app, change the country back to USA and reopen the app. No big deal.
It does for me, I don’t see any adds with premium.
Change the country in NordVPN (or any other VPN you have, before you open YouTube, to the country Albania. Albania allows YouTube but doesn’t allow ads. It is still your regular YouTube account, the language doesn’t change into Albanian or anything, but it plays the videos seamlessly with not one commercial. Then when you are done with the YouTube app, you just go back into your VPN and change back to the normal country you usually use. If you forget, usually it doesn’t matter, but some paid streaming services will say that “they don’t run in your country.” You just have to exit, switch it back to your normal country, and then re-open the app.
That’s what I have always done, but I DID just switch to SmartTube when they started the BS with that ambient-screensaver thing that you can’t disable in the Firestick version of YouTube. Not only does SmartTube skip commercials, it also skips in-video promotional stuff that the creator starts to talk about in the middle of their regular content. I don’t know how they do THAT, but it is awesome.
This is the correct answer.
I recently switched to SmartTube, and I wish I knew about it sooner, but I switched now mainly due to the ambient-screensaver mode that you can only turn off on the phone app or website, but for some reason not the Firestick YouTube version. BUT before that BS started, I just changed the country in NordVPN (or any other VPN you have, before you open YouTube, to the country Albania. Albania allows YouTube but doesn’t allow ads. It is still your regular YouTube account, the language doesn’t change into Albanian or anything, but it plays the videos seamlessly with not one commercial, then when you are done with the YouTube app, you just go back into your VPN and change back to the normal country you usually use. If you forget, usually it doesn’t matter, but some paid streaming services will say that “they don’t run in your country.” You just have to exit, switch it back to your normal country, and then re-open the app.
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