The VPN goes on your device, like a Firestick or PC. The industry preys on people not knowing how things work. Yeah, computers and TCP/IP are complicated. Read up on how things work and ask friends/family for assistance.

According to Google, Rokus do not support VPN and I'm back to the "router plugged into a router" thing.

For the time being, it's a non-issue as I no longer have YTTV.

And with respect to Fish, I STILL think YTTV made a change in late 2024. I just talked to my friend who also has Verizon Home 5G and he said he's had it for approximately 2 years and had YTTV that whole time. He never had an issue until December of 24, approximately the same time it started for me. So SOMEBODY, made some kind of switch. The difference between me and him is that he's only had to reset it a couple of times since then. I've had to reset probably on average of a least once a month and more right before I cancelled it.

I have a working theory that MAYBE it's because he has an Android phone and it's doing something in the background with his location. Because the problem started for both of us after we had a day trip to STL about the first Saturday in December and the problem started almost immediately after that trip. However I'm not sure how that relates to me though because I have an iphone with the locations services turned off except when using the app, And I NEVER use the app except when I had to refresh my location for my app on the Roku.

Yeah, that's probably Roku's fault... google says it only determines location by IP address. Apparently an Amazon Fire stick looks at router info and some are even GPS enabled.... granted, last time my YTTV bitched about location on my Fire, it wanted me to verify by phone, I assume so it could use GPS.

Now that I think about it, wonder if enabling location use for YTTV even when the app isn't in use would help with such issues... if it would actually communicate back to other devices. :hmmm:

Ha, I hadn't read that when I posted.... mine is set to only use location when using the app.

Now I kind of want to travel with my Fire stick next time I leave the state just to try out turning on background location for YTTV on my phone. LMAO

LOL, yeah I understand. I don't have it anymore but this is like an itch I can't scratch. I wish I could crack the code on what triggers it to switch. If it was once every 3 months, ok I can deal with it, it's actually pretty simple to fix. But SOMETHING is triggering it more frequently and that's the "itch I can't scratch."

If I knew WHAT was triggering it, then maybe I could come up with a strategy to deal with it. (Maybe at least get it on the "once every three months" schedule. ) The more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to think it's using my location services on my phone even when it's supposedly off. Because if that's the case, that actually would explain a lot as I'm frequently out of my current geographic viewing area.

FYI, if you are using an Android device to stream YoutubeTV, a fake GPS location app works just fine for spoofing your location to get local sports. I've used this one many times to watch Chiefs games when out of state in a different viewership zone:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...hl=en_US&pli=1

Doesn't work on Roku though..

If you have Verizon or T-Mobile, check out what streaming services they have available. We get Netflix, Max, and the Disney bundle (Disney, Hulu, ESPN) for about half of normal price. I had Google One 2TB through Google, for example. It's $10 a month. Through my mobile provider it's $5 a month and I get Gemini access for free.

F ew years back when Google fiber no longer offered their bundle of internet and tv the offered us a year of YouTube tv for free. Figured why not since we’d have to figure out some way to watch tv. Man I’ve really enjoyed it. we have YouTube tv, netflix, prime and paramount plus

Prime we already had because my wife has a pretty good stream of stuff coming from Prime anyway. We already had netflix. Only thing we added was paramount plus which is so so. find ourselves on prime way more often.

YouTube tv is great especially for me who likes to watch YouTube. In fact I probably watch more YouTube than regular channels.

Settling your location for streaming has been around since the 80's. It originally was to prevent theft, now its for a lot of reasons.

I also find myself watching more you tube videos than I did a couple of years ago. Way better quality and depth than just a few years ago. I've already got more videos saved than I'll ever watch.

The 80's? Who the hell was streaming anything in the 80's?