Wanted to start by saying I do not know anything about how ads work or really anything about how the internet works. I am not an expert by any means.
I’m just a user of LunaVPN for about 6+ years now and I’ve gone through it all with this VPN. I even remember the app Luna had. However, in all my time, I’ve never seen it down for this long. Also, when it is down, it has always been the same thing. When it doesn’t work for the YT app, there always been ads on the home page and videos loaded fine, just with ads. However, now the YT app acts strangely with Luna enabled, with long buffer times, no ads on the home page but ads in videos still. The fact it still is blocking most Safari ads and ads in games tells me Luna is still functional, but just not on YT (and I think Twitch although I don’t really use Twitch).
All to say, idk about y’all, but I’ve pretty much given up on it actually working on the YT app in the near future. Whatever YT recently just did to stop ads might’ve actually killed Luna fr. If anyone has any success reaching out to the Luna team or Sensor Tower, the owners of Luna, lmk what they say.
RIP Luna VPN: 201X - 2024 