The Best VPNs to Change Location on YouTube TV

ExpressVPN is the most reliable that still bypasses YouTube TV’s geo-blocks and changes your home area location.

We’ve been using the VPN with YouTube TV for some years, which has never blocked any of its US IP addresses.

Crucially, ExpressVPN’s web browser extension allows you to spoof your geolocation to change your playback area. We used this to access channels from other states that were live streaming NFL games blacked out in our location.

ExpressVPN’s Chrome Extension can conceal your GPS location.

ExpressVPN offers servers in 18 cities across 14 US states. Since YouTube TV provides local content based on a combination of your metropolitan area, state, and Designated Market Area (DMA), it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly how many additional home areas you can access – but the number is significant.

ExpressVPN fast streaming speeds allowed us to stream content in Full HD quality without buffering, even when we connected from the other side of the country.

For instance, connecting to Los Angeles from New York, we saw an internet speed drop of only 10%, which is phenomenal.

If you’re located outside the US, you can still expect excellent download speeds. We recorded an impressive average long-distance speed of 85Mbps, a speed loss of just 15%. Once again, an outstanding result given some of the distances involved.

We enjoyed using ExpressVPN’s user-friendly VPN apps for every conceivable device. We were able to watch watch YouTube TV on multiple devices, including our Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Android TV, and mobile devices.

ExpressVPN even has a custom router app that allows you to connect all of your home devices to connect to the same US server. This way you can stream YouTube TV on games consoles and Roku devices, too.

The only downside of using ExpressVPN is that it’s one of the most expensive VPNs on the market, costing $4.99/mo over 28 months.

We think the VPN’s extremely high level of streaming performance warrants a higher subscription price, but Private Internet Access is maybe a more sensible option for those with smaller budgets.

The fact that PIA has servers in all 50 US states is very useful when it comes to bypassing Home Area restrictions within the US.

If you want to watch local content that isn’t available in your home area, you can simply switch to a different US city or DMA.

No other VPN offers this many city-based server locations in the United States, not even ExpressVPN.

Unfortunately, not every server location worked with YouTube TV although most did.

PIA pretty much matches ExpressVPN in terms of connection speeds, whether it’s over short or long distances.

When we connected to different locations across the US, PIA maintained superb speed, with a minor speed loss of 10%.

Moreover, you can enjoy these excellent streaming speeds at a much lower cost. That’s because PIA is significantly more affordable than ExpressVPN, costing just $2.03/mo over 28 months.

PIA imposes no device limits, meaning you can install and run the VPN on as many devices as you want.

The service has neat applications for all mainstream devices such as computers, smartphones and even Fire TV Stick.

PIA’s VPN app for Fire TV Stick.

However, despite launching an Apple TV VPN app, PIA still trails ExpressVPN in terms of device compatibility: its Smart DNS solution is faulty and there is no dedicated router app.

In simple terms, this means that using PIA on devices like gaming systems and Roku will be much trickier than using ExpressVPN.

Windscribe Free offers more free US servers than any other free VPN. This means you can easily change your home location and unblock local channels in the areas of Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Seattle.

We connected to one of Windscribe Free’s US servers and quickly unblocked YouTube TV geo-blocks, making it one of the only free VPNs that can do so reliably — something even our top free VPN for streaming, PrivadoVPN, struggles to achieve.

Windscribe Free is one of the only free VPNs that unblocks YouTube TV.

Windscribe Free offers multiple free apps, including for popular devices like Fire TV Stick, Android TV, and more — ideal for streaming YouTube TV.

With Windscribe Free’s unlimited device policy, you can stream YouTube TV on as many devices as you want, giving you the flexibility to watch on any platform you prefer.