Broke YouTube TV after vacationing and using VPN

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Took a trip to a Canada from the US and used VPN server with three different clients (2 iPhones and a MacBook). I’ve been home for two weeks and continually get an error from YouTube TV “playback not allowed in this country” and almost every device used to watch it. After closing the app(s) YouTube will work again but it’s not infrequent I get the error.

Additionally, the ads Canadian about 50% of the time.

I’ve gone through all the troubleshooting I can think of sans completely deleting the WireGuard profiles.

Any insight / advice / suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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Have you tried using the “set location” option from tv.youtube.com? That might fix it.

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Have you tried uninstalling the app from all devices and then reinstall, one at a time, and test?

Also, do you have your location services enabled on your devices?

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This has happened to me a few time, google is now associating your home IP address to the location of wherever you were using the VPN at. So basically all of google apps think you’re still in Canada (if you go to google search and see your location at the bottom, it’ll probably say Canada)

This happens with other VPNs too, google’s location system will associate your IP to the location, usually when your phone has GPS location turned on and you also have the VPN back to your house enabled. From testing, it does not happen when I’m overseas and use VPN on just my laptop, but it does happen when using my phone and the GPS is also enabled.

You can tell google support that it is incorrect here. It sometimes gets fixed in a week to a month.

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Thanks for the suggestion - I updated both location options with google / YouTube tv and no dice. I’m really at a loss here. No active VPN right now, power cycled router, updated location and playback area on YouTube tv, contacted google and they have no idea either.

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I haven’t uninstalled, I will try that today. Location is enabled. Thanks for recommendation - I didn’t think to uninstall

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Thank you, I will try this. And good to know going forward. I’ve updated my location many, many times and I still get the error so I thought it might be on googles end. Thanks again, hopefully this works

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For clarity about location and to ensure we’re talking the same thing; I’m asking about whether or not location services are enabled on all of your devices / tablets / PCs that you are running Youtube TV on…not whether you set your location in your Youtube profile.