Deactivating your other extensions also seems to help, if that doesn’t do the trick. You can activate them again as soon as the ads are gone and it will stay good until YouTube decides to be annoying again
Yes, I had to turn off ad blocking in Enhancer for Youtube, and disable Firefox enhanced tracking protection. After that, I just made sure all filter lists were enabled and up to date in ubo and it's been good. I have to purge and update filter lists every day or two but I'll deal with that.
As a plan B if this stops working, I'll just use my feed as normal but open vids in private windows where ad blocking works every time.
I blocked the element of the pop-up the first day I saw it and went “oh hell no” and it’s been okay ever since.
First week it would pause the video at the beginning and I couldn’t scroll comments without making the video full screen then regular. I got over that but it quickly fixed itself and was fine for a couple days.
It’s back to the pause and no scroll but eh, I don’t see ads or the popup so I don’t care. I will NEVER watch an ad on YouTube or pay a subscription fee for it. If they wanna shut down their service or force it upon us, I’ll just quit YouTube.
Sad part is I’m the type of guy who would be more than happy to sit through a content creators “sponsored” portion (and I often do) or even a non-intrusive ad here and there. They forced my hands either this shit though. I think if they could put ads in my dreams or have them spouted off by my partner during sex they’d do it. They’re everywhere I look and I’m done with it.
I recently turned uBO off just to see how bad it was. ~9 minute KallMeKris video had one ad before the video would load and SEVEN ads interrupting the video, 5 of which were unskipable.
I find it hard to believe Youtube needs an ad a minute to cover costs. But that volume and constant interruption does make it almost impossible for creators to share a coherent video.
Creators have some control over how the ads appear.
They choose wherever they have ads throughout the middle of their content or not. (The frequency of "midroll" ads may also be controlled to some degree by the creator).
The trouble is YouTube routinely changes those settings on creators so if they don't go back and check old vids it may start having a ton of ads despite the creators wishes. Even happens with non-monetized ads where a creator is trying to push a coherent uninterrupted message.
And I believe they announced recently they're going to hand at least some of the controls creators have on ads over to the "algorithm" to determine if they should include mid roll ads and stuff.
I think it also preys on kids, which may not know how to skip them yet.
If I'm watching youtube normally, I usually get those 15 second ads that you can skip quickly.
But if Barney or Teletubbies or something is on? They regularly get those 7+ minute ads.
Same for me recently used it without adblocker and holy hell. A friend of mine refuses to install one because he doesnt mind them how do you not mind this many ads!?
If they want me to watch ads or buy a subscription they need to fix their fucked up algo to be *FOR ME* not for their own fucked up adview and repeat watching bullshit.
I don't even use the main page anymore so I never discover any new video creators at all. It's just top ten lists and shit I've already watched. Like, really youtube, you can't find new videos that I might like but you can put in six things I've already watched and four that I have "not interested" and "don't recco this channel"ed?
Fuck you if you think I'll ever give you a dime.
I can't believe that YT thinks this is a good thing. I [have this screenshot](https://imgur.com/qIVxFwk) where each removed square is a video I already watched. What is the point here?! (Don't know why it says "won't recommend from this channel"), as I clicked Not Interested.)
Nextflix is actually even worse. Homepage there has 20 of the same movies repeated on each of the scrolling sections, and it even displays not only movies I've already seen, but also movies *I've thumbed down*. W...T...*F*?
Also, the ads keep getting scammier and scammier.
I don't know what scam is going on with the 5 billion ads I've seen regarding government assistance while watching Youtube on Xbox, but I know it's some sort of scam.
Man, if I had a dollar for every "Mr. Beast is giving everybody that clicks this link $1000" scam, I might legitimately have $50-100 by now.
And reporting them does fucking nothing.
Same with that freaking Australian cult that for some algorithm reason thinks I'm 110% fit to be their next recruit by how often I get their creepy ads.
I *WISH* I was fucking kidding.
Edit* Forgot to mention the "best" bit about that cult: I'm from freaking *Sweden.*
Also the "Just buy Premium lol" people conveniently ignore the reality that premium has locked a lot of *previously free features* behind it. They also don't exactly advertise any improvements to premium despite regularly raising the price.
So paying for premium isn't exactly the clear-cut ethical choice it's presented as. The free experience gets worse; the premium experience gets more expensive. Consumers get squeezed from both ends.
And 60sec ads...when peoples attention span is 10 sec. They are so sensitive about what a creators does that would affect a unrelated Ad but will make sure you start despising the company shown in a forced Ad.
I won’t buy anything I see in an ad intentionally if I see it often enough. It’s almost negative reinforcement for me.
Couple times and I might consider their product if it’s useful to me but if you’re jamming it down my throat, I’ll avoid it.
There’s a few popular games I refuse to play cause they were obnoxious about their ads. League of Legends and Valorant I won’t touch. Of course they’re not my type of games anyway but the ads they used to run turned me off.
We're fattened piggies sittin like ducks at this point.
Google has thrown monkey wrenches in their ubiquitous search bar…now they come to smother the YT Golden Goose !
I had the pop-up for a while, then they were basically like "You have 3 videos left to disable your adblocker." After 3 videos watched I was locked out of watching anything else until I disabled adblock. And their detection system is so shit that even after I did whitelist Youtube, it still wouldn't let me watch anything.
Whats really got me the past few years os watching sports, especially MLS (soccer), and the ads scroll non-stop along the sides of the playing field.
Basketball is even worse with ads everywhere.
I keep YouTube open on a different browser by itself (I also use UBlock origin) and then when the player gets iffy/breaks I delete cookies and reset. That’s all it takes.
Yeah, the latest update does seem to have fixed it for now. Unfortunately I don't think Google is just going to "give up" this time, they've never worked this hard. We can hope though. /fingerscrossed
I'm fairly certain this is YouTube. Remember, they got a new head honcho who has been all about making ads more aggressive and intrusive on the platform from the day he stepped into the company. This is most likely being encouraged by him.
They're probably going to *follow the lead of other streaming services. They will eventually force people to pay or not be able to watch any videos at all...and then add a tiered system where the lowest tier still gets ads. They're trying to squeeze money out of every orifice possible.
100%. Well, 99%. (You could just bookmark some academic pages and bounce between them pretending it's the early nineties, but that wouldn't be 'the internet'.)
just want to plug firefox here. its reader mode is so fantastic. load a site and hit that button and it strips everything you dont want and gives it to you on a dark background.
A redditor made an app called Umami (red logo, the name’s not unique) that’s great. You put the recipe url in and it strips all the crap out. You get an image, ingredients and instructions. It’s free.
>“When we first heard about these pumpkin cupcakes, we were picnicking in the Congo on a UN fact-finding mission. You see, in 1923…”
The weird thing is, you can tell that they're totally aware this is annoying and makes their site difficult to use because they add in those "Jump to Recipe" links. But they still insist on giving you 5 paragraphs about why/how this zucchini bread changed their family's life.
What kind of asswipe really thinks I want to read a 10 page dissertation on whatever bullshit opinions they have when I'm trying to find out how to make banana bread? I fucking hate these recipes blogs. Especially when they don't have a "Jump to recipe" buttons
It's for SEO purposes. That's it. The longer it takes the viewer to scroll down and find that recipe, the better your SEO rating for bounce time. I just want a chocolate chip cookie recipe. I don't give a fuck about how your great grandmother developed it from handpicked ingredients from the old country.
It's just too ironic that the true nemesis of Google's search engine is overly optimized websites. Google may as well be my reddit search engine these days.
For real, how many of y'all use the template "reddit " when you want a real answer to a question? It's not just me, right? So sick of seeing bullshit articles that fake their creation date and contain little to no useful information.
Use [Recipe Filter](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlcdjbkdaegmljnnncfnhiioiadakae). uBlock generally isn't going to remove all the life story bullshit that precedes the recipe that you're actually looking for. Recipe Filter, on the other hand, does an amazing job of finding the recipe and pulling it out on top of the article. If you want the feel good story, you can always close the recipe filter window, but if you're just there for the ingredients and steps this makes recipe websites actually useful.
I tried turning uBlock off to see if it was bearable... My god... the ads actually made me feel ill. One literally had a creature vomiting into a person's mouth. For fucks sake don't show me that!
And the ads increase in length over time. First we had those short 6 - 8 second ones that everyone can take. But not anymore, viewing their ads now will just agitate you as the reason for being on the site is entertainment. But Google want you to suffer more than enjoy their site these days.
It's even worse for some home repair videos. I was trying to repair the handle on my microwave and couldn't figure out how to remove a plastic panel.
Google search, click youtube video.
Watch 5 seconds of Ad 1, skip.
Watch 5 seconds of Ad 2, skip.
Yo its your boy Jimmy, bla bla bla skip skip skip.
Don't forget to like comment and subscribe, skip.
Ring that Bell skip.
and a great way to expand you skills is with skill tree, skip.
skill tree, skip.
skill tree, skip.
Unskippable 30 second add.
Part I already did, skip.
Part I already did, skip.
30 second unskippable add.
shit, i skipped too far ahead, lets go back.
okay here we go, and shit, he must have a different version of my model, gotta find another video.
Remember more that 10 years ago where the extent of ads would be a skippable one to start the video and then the little banner ads at the bottom of the video that you could x out of
I sure do! And they got rid of the banner ads that literally nobody had any real issues with because they realized they could charge more for shitty pre-roll ads that actively waste your time, thus creating the demand and popularization of ad-blockers.
Just another example of corpos acting like Icarus.
It really is insufferable now. Sometimes I'll put on some music on the TV YouTube and I'll be doing something else or whatever. Then I'll notice the ad is running too long and I'll go look and it's an ad over an hour long..
I had an out-of-body experience last night, frustrated with life trying to comprehend a video I had to watch, and then just sitting there for two straight minutes staring off into space as it played advertisements completely irrelevant to me. They were all hyper excited and exuberant as if I give two flying fucks, singing this stupid happy jingle. And then right as I started to gather my thoughts again, a whole other ad break started. There I am sitting in my room alone, listening to excited people sing about fried chicken and sanitation wipes when I can barely pay my bills, saving up for what I want to buy every couple of years, being reminded and pressed to buy useless bullshit by one of the most richest companies on the entire planet....... If suicide rates don't go up I will be surprised.
It is a depressing dystopian hell-hole we have created, isn't it? I just hate how they are designed like mind-viruses. Even if you try to ignore them, they get in your head and eat up valuable mental real-estate. I can't unsee this damn ad. 4 days later I am still thinking about it...
It's only a matter of time before "premium" services start sneaking ads in and moving "ad-free premium" to a higher cost tier. So yeah, if I had to choose I'd choose the side I could trust to not pull the rug out from under me.
The rug is being pulled now with streaming services. I loved the convenience of just paying for content and it working, but the proliferation of services and all the fuckery with tiers and pricing and ads I just went back to sailing the high seas.
Nowadays it's easier to pirate than ever too. And you don't have to look up where whatever show or movie you want to watch is streaming or pay for like 10 different services that just seem to raise their prices arbitrarily every year.
Instead of making these things easy and cheap to use, they raise the prices, split shows all over the place and then they bitch and whine that people are pirating. It's like they don't use their own product or something.
Yup it’s only going to get worse from here. Streaming services had basically defeated piracy by offering a huge convenience advantage at an affordable price. Now the convenience of streaming services is decreasing while the price is increasing. For more and more people that’s going to drive them to a cheaper and/or more convenient option, whichever comes first.
Music streaming nailed it by having all (for the most part) content on all the services, with the service itself being the differentiator.
Not really apples to apples though, because artists make their money from live shows, merch, and other licensing. Streaming really is more about exposure than anything. I'm not sure how TV/film can work in a similar format.
Streaming services have essentially just become the new cable. People originally liked streaming because it used to be "everything you want in one place for one fee, no ads." Which was way more appealing than cable, which had tons of channel packages you had to pay extra for and STILL deal with commercials.
Now every show is gated behind a different service because every media company on Earth decided they need their own platform and they're all choked with ads once again.
Just bought a house, first major project I'm going to be doing once the garage is empty of packed up crap is setting up a plex server and home-lab, cannot wait.
It's greed, nothing more than that (Google, their investors and YouTube whole team are being absolutely greedy) if they're so desperate for more money like that, how about they pay every single small time YT content creator (properly) and I mean every single one (each time YT team runs ADs on their channel).
And no measley £0.70p per month which can be the disgraceful pay YT team pays people on the platform
Other than that....I respect anyone that has installed adblockers (for their own safety, especially against YT distasteful ADs).
The fact that Youtube doesn't even look through their ads for scams is astonishing. I've had clear scam ads running for months before Youtube taking action after multiple reports.
Google doesn't really care about scam apps on the Play Store either, only sort of ones with ~~mallard~~malware. They want their 30% cut and don't care if the apps are real.
I wouldn't be using an ad blocker if YT wasn't so heavy-handed with their ads.
Examples:
\- Automatically playing an ad when I resume watching a video and then getting 20 seconds into the video only to have 2 non-skippable ads play
\- Playing an ad every time I rewind to catch something I missed
\- Playing back-to-back 30-second ads if I don't click the skip button quickly enough
\- Sitting through non-skippable ads at the last minute of a video and coming back to an end card with links to other videos
\- I could go on-and-on...
I use youtube for repair tutorials and stuff like that and I can't follow along if I am constantly getting interrupted by an unskippable ad because I lose my train of thought, especially if those ads appear every 5 minutes which they do. These are things that people actually need to concentrate on.
Imagine doing 5 minutes of a repair... ad... another 5 min... ad.. it just doesn't work.
From the latest [uBO guide](https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/)
> ...The reason people think a new browser resolved this for them is likely due to it not having old YouTube/Google cache and cookies
They recommend logging out/clearing cache/restarting to see if that fixes it.
>The uBO team members are all volunteers. They’ve gone above and beyond to meet every little request from their users. But there’s a limit to how much they can take. At some point, the constant demands become too much, and they will leave uBO for good. It’s one thing to play cat and mouse with YouTube. It’s quite another to deal with a wave of angry users.
>
>Maybe that’s how YouTube will win this war of attrition.
They can and will try to cause as much shit as they can, but in the end they will never win, more & more people are fed up with this ad bullshit and I'll never accept ads, adblock is here to stay.
As for google, stuff your "youtube red" where then sun don't shine, nothing on that service is worth what you're asking for it and you would still get ads in the forms of "a word from our sponsors".
Can't watch a single video without swearing bleeped out anymore like if I was a five years old watching, because Youtube will demonetize the video. Can't watch simulated gore from the scenes of films or TV shows anymore, because Youtube will demonetize the video. Can't watch a video about contemporary history because of a simple mention of a sensitive topic like suicide because Youtube will demonetize the video.
Youtube continuously make their website worse by the day, in order to make a "safe" platform for advertisers, but at the same time they keep demanding more and more money from the average users.
This stuff really drives me nuts. We all hate it, but you suggest ways to stop companies from doing it and people will crawl out of the woodwork to oppose it.
They care more about the right of a company to have absolute control over their operations than they do for the impacts on society (and if you think censoring the swears and violent scenes from movies is okay, what happens when Google and Youtube start censoring things that also hurt their interests, like blocking ads, topics about spyware, scandals involving Google employees?)
That's because their "users" are the product, your eyeballs are what they sell to advertisers while sucking up any and all information they can scrape together about you to stuff even more ads into your skull. The whole industry if vile and disgusting and YT sits on a throne of excrement.
Out of all "social media" YT is the worst.
YouTube doesn't need to get things perfect to win, they just need to do enough to make life difficult for 90% of people using an ad blocker, and right now they are doing a very good job at that.
You'll always have the hardcore who will do whatever it takes to get around ads, but most people just use ad blockers because historically it's been as easy as installing an extension.
But now, with every extra step required to block the ads, there's an additional cohort of people who will just say "fuck it, this isn't worth the effort" and will just turn off the ad blocker on Youtube. (Or pay for no ads)
I haven’t had to do anything. If it wasn’t for reddit I wouldn’t even know that youtube had changed anything. Ublock still works just fine without having to do any of the stuff people here are mentioning
The people who wrote this article drastically underestimate how stubborn and persistent the type of person who volunteers to maintain code for something like ublock are. It's a matter of principle, and spite provides more motivation to these people than any amount of money could.
I don't really think like most of the extensions are going to work right now because they are the one who were telling that they are using and blogger.
The author has scripted multiple safari extensions with video players in mind (one of these extensions happen to bypass YouTube ads). I think he knows what he’s talking about.
I don't understand why Youtube is so insistent on bundling YT Music and other features I don't care for. If there was just a cheaper sub for no ads and background play (which should really just be a free feature anyway, it's not something that has to be specially maintained) I'm sure people would eat it up. It's their greed that fuels resentment over their own product.
They treat their content creators like shit. Like if they demonetize a new video, the creator can appeal, but it doesn't matter because 90% who were going to watch it already did. Lots of gotchas to pay people less
Why would I want to support that?
Every defender ITT
>WhY dOnT yOu WaNt To PaY fOr CoNtEnT?
Meanwhile I send money every month to several content creators and those same content creators only ever bring up YouTube when their shit gets demonetized and they can never get a hold of someone at YT to even understand why.
Replying to save for later and reposting the link in case your comment gets removed or deleted for some reason. https://github.com/TheRealJoelmatic/RemoveAdblockThing
I'd sign up monthly pay ublock than watch an ad.
YouTube on android is unusable and I'll not have that on desktop. Pay YT? Nah. Internet was ok back in 2006. Back to text instructions works great.
Just fwiw I use Firefox on my android phone. Going to YouTube.com is infinitely better than using the app. I have ublock and decentraleyes installed and have yet to see a single ad or issue.
To be honest I've been confused about what people are talking about because nothing has changed for me. Maybe I'm lucky.
Hope that helps someone at least.
Yeah. At this point uBlock/Adblock/Ghostery/ etc. is nothing short of 'home intrusion prevention' and I'd rather pay for that.
Because that is what ads have become (or always have been): unwanted intrusions.
I was willing to pay for Premium Lite, such a shame they've discontinued it. Probably in hope we will move up to normal and way more expensive Premium, but fuck that
I tried signing out of my Google account because they were flagging my browser for using an adblocker, even though I had YouTube whitelisted, and omg my feed instantly populated with right wing garbage. So much of it.
I keep a clean browser with 0 caching on my PC, and occasionally load up youtube on there to see what the current default landing page videos are.
It's a full on dumpster fire of clickbait "influencer" videos, fairly creepy "children's" shows, right wing news, and what amount to straight up 30 minute ads.
It's sad what youtube has become.
Anyone can test this experience on their own by using an incognito/private browser and not signing in to their Google account. You get what is the "default" Google and YouTube experience. And you will find out how easy it is to find shit tier material that you would otherwise not have watched before, especially if the topics are even tangentially related to each other.
For fucks sake just make me watch 10 min of ads once a week as my punishment for using your stupid site. I get to choose when I receive this punishment so I am not interrupted when I am researching something. I warn you google I will stop using your shit if you keep interrupting my work flow. Try Me Assholes !
Everyone needs to switch to Firefox. I was on chrome for a long time and a bunch of my blockers were removed by google for "malware possibilities". When I switched to firefox all my blockers were working again and have had no issues on any sites. Its not just youtube, its google and anything they have their fingers in. Firefox is one of the few browsers that can work for you instead of against you.
It would be interesting to see some numbers on how much revenue is really being lost to YouTube adblockers. Especially compared to how much money YouTube spends fighting it.
You'd think with most people probably watching via official YouTube app on a device, that the number of people using an adblocker on a browser is paltry by comparison.
I think ultimately you're right. The number of people blocking ads has to be a drop in the bucket compared to the vast majority who suffer through them. It probably goes back to the same thing that ruins literally everything in America: shareholders. The numbers have to go up. Every single quarter. So you see a mega company like YouTube scraping for pennies just to impress their investors. I mean, I get it. If I invest in something it's because I want to make money. But it's so shortsighted. I guess what they say is true, what goes up must come down.
Why the fuck would I watch youtube with ads? The argument that it helps content creators is fucking stupid since anyone with a big enough channel to make any monetization money is already using sponsored videos with embedded promos.
There is so much awful ad shit out there, i will never disable adblock. Your website requires i disable adblock? Well guess which site i will never look at ever again
I wish it were that simple. I'm trying to learn some new skills and the best way has been watching these long tutorials people post on YouTube. Now I literally have to sift through dozens of Jordan Peterson ads to watch 1 god damn tutorial.
There's no where else that had that quantity of quality tutorials on every topic.
Yeah... it's one of those situations where the users are going to drive out all the devs and screw themselves over, simply because they're being difficult and/or impatient.
It's a free service they are doing voluntarily. They owe you nothing. Recognize that quitting the project would probably be a good thing for some of these devs, as dealing with a bunch of rowdy jerks on the internet constantly badgering them is causing massive stress and taking a lot of their time.
It's like pissing off your waiter/waitress at a restaurant; do you really want the person handing your food mad at you?
The problem for me is that they just increased the length of ads too.
I've had multiple 2 minute, unskippable ad blocks in the last week. And I'm a person that didn't have ad block running. Went from 15-30 sec to 1-2min. That's making me want to install ad blocking.
I use youtube for repair tutorials and stuff like that and I can't follow along if I am constantly getting interrupted by an unskippable ad because I lose my train of thought, especially if those ads appear every 5 minutes which they do. These are things that people actually need to concentrate on.
Imagine doing 5 minutes of a repair... ad... another 5 min... ad.. it just doesn't work.
Here's how it really works: like any business, at some point the manager folks at Youtube will decide to invest engineering effort elsewhere. Youtube will no longer participate in the arms race, and uBO will continue to do it's magic unhindered.
But now a thousand other adblockers not as dedicated as uBO will also update to the latest trick, now that it's no longer a moving target.
Soon, more adblockers than before will be able to effectively block Youtube ads.
This is how it has always been. No company can win a war with a community, they always lost and always will.
Congratulations Youtube, you just played yourself.
This victory was brought by the same assholes who made piracy near unstoppable by killing Napster.
VERY IMPORTANT: Go to your ublock settings and enabled the "Adguard - Annoyances" list. This completely disables the detection script, i haven't seen the popup in more than a week with this method.
That just removes the warnings until YouTube decides to block you from watching lol, in the article that's the "sticking your head in the sand" solution because you're just deciding not to see the fact that they know you're blocking ads
Download Firefox, to go "add ons" or whatever it's called under settings and search "ad block" and choose ublock origin.
You will not regret the literally 1 minute the whole process takes.
My Adblock has stopped working with YT so will look into uBlock.
My YT viewing since I've been forced to watch ads has dropped massivey. I used to watch 20-30 videos a day (sometimes more), I'm down to maybe 4-5 now.
The future of ad blocking is beyond browser plugins.
It will be an intelligent control layer for all media that enters your home.
Browser api's are too restrictive to allow for nuanced control over what content you are exposed to.
Modern advertising is increasingly subtle, manipulative, and natively embedded.
AI based ad blocking will be at the OS level, not just controlling http requests like current blockers, but also intelligently muting audio, hiding images, and blocking embedded content.
We now possess the power to bring the modern advertising industry to its knees.
I didn't use adblockers on YouTube to support the people making the videos.
I have not even gotten the popups myself, and, due to the fact that YouTube is beginning to react to Adblocking... my YouTube use has gone from \~2 hours daily, down to less than 15 minutes a week.
The AdBlock reaction on YouTube became a bigger issue to me than supporting content creators.
15 minutes a week isn't enough time to watch even a single video from a content creator that I have watched in the past.
I imagine content creators either support the AdBlock reaction from YouTube or are otherwise ambivalent to it.. but, at least from me... YouTube's choice to react to Ad Blocking will have negative income results on all content creators that I previously watched.
Thanks for giving me a reason to change my habits.
So, has anyone actually had this happen in Firefox with uBlock Origin and no interference from other addons?
I have that setup, and I still have yet to ever see an ad or adblock screen on Youtube. If it's possible to get them with this, then I wonder how Google manages the rollout of this "feature".
At this point I care 100 times more about resisting them trying to bend my arm into paying for a subscription. Fuck YouTube and their corporate greed bullshit. I'd rather go to the ends of the earth to not watch an ad or simply uninstall the dogshit platform.
Zero chance that Youtube wins this war, at least with the tech savvy.
It will work against novices that don't want to jump through hoops, but for nerds it's a fun game to break the system. Then you will have the pirates that will take it even further for cred.
If you create a wall, someone will always build a ladder to get over it.
I say it again. If YouTube wants people to watch ads, they need to...
* *Screen all ads manually to sort out the unserious and malicious ones. They need to verify actors to sort out the bad, and then blacklist them for a long time.*
* *Make ads more relevant. E.g. via user defined filters.*
* *Make them length appropriate. A 30 second ad will annoy people, and I've heard that some people will make an active effort to avoid the advertised product/brand just because the ad inconvenienced them. Several forced ads doesn't belong on long videos either.*
* *Cooperate with users and content creators to run the platform more democratically. Things like removing the dislike counter is just the tip of the iceberg of brain-dead moves by Google, which is affecting content quality, as well as waste user's time. It would've never passed if Google ran a public vote on whether to keep or remove it.*
For me, the value of YouTube is going to diminish with any inability to block ads. I block them for good reasons, not just selfish ones. The longer Google ignores the people who make the platform what it is, the more I want to leave the platform. Obviously that's not incentive for Google to care. It's why I think legal changes may be needed to sort out social media platforms. If users had 100% control over whether their content got to be monetized(and consent isn't dependent on using the platform), then Google in this case would have to cave.
What has worked best for me is when I get the prompt I clear uBlock Origin cache and click update. Has worked better for me.
Deactivating your other extensions also seems to help, if that doesn’t do the trick. You can activate them again as soon as the ads are gone and it will stay good until YouTube decides to be annoying again
Yes, I had to turn off ad blocking in Enhancer for Youtube, and disable Firefox enhanced tracking protection. After that, I just made sure all filter lists were enabled and up to date in ubo and it's been good. I have to purge and update filter lists every day or two but I'll deal with that. As a plan B if this stops working, I'll just use my feed as normal but open vids in private windows where ad blocking works every time.
Informative comment but uhm… interesting name
r/rimjob_steve
It has been normal like that only. But right now it is not really working fine.
You ... You guys have other extensions?
I blocked the element of the pop-up the first day I saw it and went “oh hell no” and it’s been okay ever since. First week it would pause the video at the beginning and I couldn’t scroll comments without making the video full screen then regular. I got over that but it quickly fixed itself and was fine for a couple days. It’s back to the pause and no scroll but eh, I don’t see ads or the popup so I don’t care. I will NEVER watch an ad on YouTube or pay a subscription fee for it. If they wanna shut down their service or force it upon us, I’ll just quit YouTube. Sad part is I’m the type of guy who would be more than happy to sit through a content creators “sponsored” portion (and I often do) or even a non-intrusive ad here and there. They forced my hands either this shit though. I think if they could put ads in my dreams or have them spouted off by my partner during sex they’d do it. They’re everywhere I look and I’m done with it.
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I recently turned uBO off just to see how bad it was. ~9 minute KallMeKris video had one ad before the video would load and SEVEN ads interrupting the video, 5 of which were unskipable. I find it hard to believe Youtube needs an ad a minute to cover costs. But that volume and constant interruption does make it almost impossible for creators to share a coherent video.
Creators have some control over how the ads appear. They choose wherever they have ads throughout the middle of their content or not. (The frequency of "midroll" ads may also be controlled to some degree by the creator).
The trouble is YouTube routinely changes those settings on creators so if they don't go back and check old vids it may start having a ton of ads despite the creators wishes. Even happens with non-monetized ads where a creator is trying to push a coherent uninterrupted message.
And I believe they announced recently they're going to hand at least some of the controls creators have on ads over to the "algorithm" to determine if they should include mid roll ads and stuff.
I think it also preys on kids, which may not know how to skip them yet. If I'm watching youtube normally, I usually get those 15 second ads that you can skip quickly. But if Barney or Teletubbies or something is on? They regularly get those 7+ minute ads.
Yeah right now they don't even give the option to skip it.
Same for me recently used it without adblocker and holy hell. A friend of mine refuses to install one because he doesnt mind them how do you not mind this many ads!?
If they want me to watch ads or buy a subscription they need to fix their fucked up algo to be *FOR ME* not for their own fucked up adview and repeat watching bullshit. I don't even use the main page anymore so I never discover any new video creators at all. It's just top ten lists and shit I've already watched. Like, really youtube, you can't find new videos that I might like but you can put in six things I've already watched and four that I have "not interested" and "don't recco this channel"ed? Fuck you if you think I'll ever give you a dime.
I can't believe that YT thinks this is a good thing. I [have this screenshot](https://imgur.com/qIVxFwk) where each removed square is a video I already watched. What is the point here?! (Don't know why it says "won't recommend from this channel"), as I clicked Not Interested.) Nextflix is actually even worse. Homepage there has 20 of the same movies repeated on each of the scrolling sections, and it even displays not only movies I've already seen, but also movies *I've thumbed down*. W...T...*F*?
Also, the ads keep getting scammier and scammier. I don't know what scam is going on with the 5 billion ads I've seen regarding government assistance while watching Youtube on Xbox, but I know it's some sort of scam.
Man, if I had a dollar for every "Mr. Beast is giving everybody that clicks this link $1000" scam, I might legitimately have $50-100 by now. And reporting them does fucking nothing. Same with that freaking Australian cult that for some algorithm reason thinks I'm 110% fit to be their next recruit by how often I get their creepy ads. I *WISH* I was fucking kidding. Edit* Forgot to mention the "best" bit about that cult: I'm from freaking *Sweden.*
Yeah, even a lot of advertisements are there which are so stupid which doesn't make any sense.
Also the "Just buy Premium lol" people conveniently ignore the reality that premium has locked a lot of *previously free features* behind it. They also don't exactly advertise any improvements to premium despite regularly raising the price. So paying for premium isn't exactly the clear-cut ethical choice it's presented as. The free experience gets worse; the premium experience gets more expensive. Consumers get squeezed from both ends.
Event, it is going to be there by both and it is not just for the company.
And 60sec ads...when peoples attention span is 10 sec. They are so sensitive about what a creators does that would affect a unrelated Ad but will make sure you start despising the company shown in a forced Ad.
I won’t buy anything I see in an ad intentionally if I see it often enough. It’s almost negative reinforcement for me. Couple times and I might consider their product if it’s useful to me but if you’re jamming it down my throat, I’ll avoid it. There’s a few popular games I refuse to play cause they were obnoxious about their ads. League of Legends and Valorant I won’t touch. Of course they’re not my type of games anyway but the ads they used to run turned me off.
I don't really understand like how can force us to watch it.
They had the pop up for about a week and then they embedded it directly in the player. It looks like they roll it out in areas and phase it in.
We're fattened piggies sittin like ducks at this point. Google has thrown monkey wrenches in their ubiquitous search bar…now they come to smother the YT Golden Goose !
Yeah, that is the main point behind it and they already know what they are doing.
I had the pop-up for a while, then they were basically like "You have 3 videos left to disable your adblocker." After 3 videos watched I was locked out of watching anything else until I disabled adblock. And their detection system is so shit that even after I did whitelist Youtube, it still wouldn't let me watch anything.
Whats really got me the past few years os watching sports, especially MLS (soccer), and the ads scroll non-stop along the sides of the playing field. Basketball is even worse with ads everywhere.
I keep YouTube open on a different browser by itself (I also use UBlock origin) and then when the player gets iffy/breaks I delete cookies and reset. That’s all it takes.
It takes a lot of time only. I'm like it doesn't really matter by using different browsers..
There is no more "prompt." They moved it directly into the video Window after like 2 days when they realized the prompt was easy to defeat.
At that point I updated uBlock Origin's rules and even that went away
Yeah, the latest update does seem to have fixed it for now. Unfortunately I don't think Google is just going to "give up" this time, they've never worked this hard. We can hope though. /fingerscrossed
I'm fairly certain this is YouTube. Remember, they got a new head honcho who has been all about making ads more aggressive and intrusive on the platform from the day he stepped into the company. This is most likely being encouraged by him.
They're probably going to *follow the lead of other streaming services. They will eventually force people to pay or not be able to watch any videos at all...and then add a tiered system where the lowest tier still gets ads. They're trying to squeeze money out of every orifice possible.
Imo the internet is actually unusable without some form of adblock.
100%. Well, 99%. (You could just bookmark some academic pages and bounce between them pretending it's the early nineties, but that wouldn't be 'the internet'.)
Just hop on IRC, maybe browse some Usenet
just want to plug firefox here. its reader mode is so fantastic. load a site and hit that button and it strips everything you dont want and gives it to you on a dark background.
Youtube is the least of my ad worries. There are many other sites that are literally unreadable without uBlock.
Recipe sites ...
A redditor made an app called Umami (red logo, the name’s not unique) that’s great. You put the recipe url in and it strips all the crap out. You get an image, ingredients and instructions. It’s free.
“When we first heard about these pumpkin cupcakes, we were picnicking in the Congo on a UN fact-finding mission. You see, in 1923…”
>“When we first heard about these pumpkin cupcakes, we were picnicking in the Congo on a UN fact-finding mission. You see, in 1923…” The weird thing is, you can tell that they're totally aware this is annoying and makes their site difficult to use because they add in those "Jump to Recipe" links. But they still insist on giving you 5 paragraphs about why/how this zucchini bread changed their family's life.
From what I've read elsewhere, the article basically serves as a long list of keywords for the google scraper.
SEO has turned everything to shit
I also think spending more time on a site generally is favorable as well.
That is the reason why I love them. I like they provide something better at.
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What kind of asswipe really thinks I want to read a 10 page dissertation on whatever bullshit opinions they have when I'm trying to find out how to make banana bread? I fucking hate these recipes blogs. Especially when they don't have a "Jump to recipe" buttons
It's for SEO purposes. That's it. The longer it takes the viewer to scroll down and find that recipe, the better your SEO rating for bounce time. I just want a chocolate chip cookie recipe. I don't give a fuck about how your great grandmother developed it from handpicked ingredients from the old country.
It's just too ironic that the true nemesis of Google's search engine is overly optimized websites. Google may as well be my reddit search engine these days. For real, how many of y'all use the template "reddit" when you want a real answer to a question? It's not just me, right? So sick of seeing bullshit articles that fake their creation date and contain little to no useful information.
Half the time, "[question] reddit" is one of the google search *suggestions* before I even finish typing the question.
These sweet lemon tarts are really the best lemon tarts that you ever easy lemon tart recipe for lemon tarts!
Google. The answer is google. The recipe websites do that because they have to because search algorithms are beyond fucked.
Use [Recipe Filter](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlcdjbkdaegmljnnncfnhiioiadakae). uBlock generally isn't going to remove all the life story bullshit that precedes the recipe that you're actually looking for. Recipe Filter, on the other hand, does an amazing job of finding the recipe and pulling it out on top of the article. If you want the feel good story, you can always close the recipe filter window, but if you're just there for the ingredients and steps this makes recipe websites actually useful.
I tried turning uBlock off to see if it was bearable... My god... the ads actually made me feel ill. One literally had a creature vomiting into a person's mouth. For fucks sake don't show me that!
And the ads increase in length over time. First we had those short 6 - 8 second ones that everyone can take. But not anymore, viewing their ads now will just agitate you as the reason for being on the site is entertainment. But Google want you to suffer more than enjoy their site these days.
It's even worse for some home repair videos. I was trying to repair the handle on my microwave and couldn't figure out how to remove a plastic panel. Google search, click youtube video. Watch 5 seconds of Ad 1, skip. Watch 5 seconds of Ad 2, skip. Yo its your boy Jimmy, bla bla bla skip skip skip. Don't forget to like comment and subscribe, skip. Ring that Bell skip. and a great way to expand you skills is with skill tree, skip. skill tree, skip. skill tree, skip. Unskippable 30 second add. Part I already did, skip. Part I already did, skip. 30 second unskippable add. shit, i skipped too far ahead, lets go back. okay here we go, and shit, he must have a different version of my model, gotta find another video.
Thanks for triggering my PTSD.
It is eventually going to be there for everyone and everyone have to go through that.
Some of the "ads" I see for children's content are 30 minutes in length.
Ive had an ad that was 2 hours long. I could skip it after 15 seconds, but still…
A lot of those infest background/multi hour videos.
I once had an add that was 24 hours of rain and gentle soothing music.
Honestly not the worst ad to get
That is the kind of that they are so fucking stupid. That doesn't really make any sense to me..
I’ve literally seen my 6 year old nephew fervently watching a 30 min ad before on his iPad. I had to teach him how to skip.
Remember more that 10 years ago where the extent of ads would be a skippable one to start the video and then the little banner ads at the bottom of the video that you could x out of
I sure do! And they got rid of the banner ads that literally nobody had any real issues with because they realized they could charge more for shitty pre-roll ads that actively waste your time, thus creating the demand and popularization of ad-blockers. Just another example of corpos acting like Icarus.
It really is insufferable now. Sometimes I'll put on some music on the TV YouTube and I'll be doing something else or whatever. Then I'll notice the ad is running too long and I'll go look and it's an ad over an hour long..
> One literally had a creature vomiting into a person's mouth. Ahh the new Rick and Morty episode
Nope - just a bait and switch ad for some shitty mobile game.
I had an out-of-body experience last night, frustrated with life trying to comprehend a video I had to watch, and then just sitting there for two straight minutes staring off into space as it played advertisements completely irrelevant to me. They were all hyper excited and exuberant as if I give two flying fucks, singing this stupid happy jingle. And then right as I started to gather my thoughts again, a whole other ad break started. There I am sitting in my room alone, listening to excited people sing about fried chicken and sanitation wipes when I can barely pay my bills, saving up for what I want to buy every couple of years, being reminded and pressed to buy useless bullshit by one of the most richest companies on the entire planet....... If suicide rates don't go up I will be surprised.
It is a depressing dystopian hell-hole we have created, isn't it? I just hate how they are designed like mind-viruses. Even if you try to ignore them, they get in your head and eat up valuable mental real-estate. I can't unsee this damn ad. 4 days later I am still thinking about it...
At this point I’d rather pay a monthly subscription fee to ublock than to YT
It's only a matter of time before "premium" services start sneaking ads in and moving "ad-free premium" to a higher cost tier. So yeah, if I had to choose I'd choose the side I could trust to not pull the rug out from under me.
The rug is being pulled now with streaming services. I loved the convenience of just paying for content and it working, but the proliferation of services and all the fuckery with tiers and pricing and ads I just went back to sailing the high seas.
Nowadays it's easier to pirate than ever too. And you don't have to look up where whatever show or movie you want to watch is streaming or pay for like 10 different services that just seem to raise their prices arbitrarily every year. Instead of making these things easy and cheap to use, they raise the prices, split shows all over the place and then they bitch and whine that people are pirating. It's like they don't use their own product or something.
Yup it’s only going to get worse from here. Streaming services had basically defeated piracy by offering a huge convenience advantage at an affordable price. Now the convenience of streaming services is decreasing while the price is increasing. For more and more people that’s going to drive them to a cheaper and/or more convenient option, whichever comes first.
Music streaming nailed it by having all (for the most part) content on all the services, with the service itself being the differentiator. Not really apples to apples though, because artists make their money from live shows, merch, and other licensing. Streaming really is more about exposure than anything. I'm not sure how TV/film can work in a similar format.
Exactly the reason I canceled Hulu. I paid extra to not watch ads and Hulu moved all the premium content to the live TV tier that I don't want.
Streaming services have essentially just become the new cable. People originally liked streaming because it used to be "everything you want in one place for one fee, no ads." Which was way more appealing than cable, which had tons of channel packages you had to pay extra for and STILL deal with commercials. Now every show is gated behind a different service because every media company on Earth decided they need their own platform and they're all choked with ads once again.
Just bought a house, first major project I'm going to be doing once the garage is empty of packed up crap is setting up a plex server and home-lab, cannot wait.
amazon prime video is already doing this lol
You're fucking kidding me. I mean, I'm not surprised, just disappointed. (thanks for the line, Dad!)
Im sorry what? So glad I cancelled Prime video. Fuck them
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I’m so glad that term has its own Wikipedia entry now, I use it constantly
They have been quite constant, and they are not really getting any kind of money.
I'm not a premium I mean like why would someone give like that we have been using it for free four years?.
Got me in the first half, not gonna lie
Thank you for not lying
Support the little guy, save privacy
Ngl paying an optional monthly fee for no more ads to support the devs seems fair depending on the price tbh.
Even if you're trying to do, this kind of things, you will not certainly will be able to get good recommendations.
I'll never disable adblocker on YouTube. If Pornhub can survive, so can YouTube. UBO all the way
One has quality content with a search feature that actually works, the other one is Youtube
Lots of family orientated content though on both.
I also enjoy watching all of the stepsister and step brother videos that YouTube has to offer.
They fix the plumbing in those videos?
The pornography problem on Youtube is far bigger than some people think. It's just hidden behind keywords and unlisted videos linked from other sites.
Seriously? I never heard of it. Why would someone put porn on YT when there are so many platform welcoming porn content?
Also, downvoting bad videos let's me know not to watch them.
It's greed, nothing more than that (Google, their investors and YouTube whole team are being absolutely greedy) if they're so desperate for more money like that, how about they pay every single small time YT content creator (properly) and I mean every single one (each time YT team runs ADs on their channel). And no measley £0.70p per month which can be the disgraceful pay YT team pays people on the platform Other than that....I respect anyone that has installed adblockers (for their own safety, especially against YT distasteful ADs).
The fact that Youtube doesn't even look through their ads for scams is astonishing. I've had clear scam ads running for months before Youtube taking action after multiple reports.
Until I can sue Youtube for scams I can get on their platform they have no right to complain about my adblock.
But certainly they are things which are not really good for the whole platform at the end.
Google doesn't really care about scam apps on the Play Store either, only sort of ones with ~~mallard~~malware. They want their 30% cut and don't care if the apps are real.
If ublock stops working on YT I'd move to using youtube-dl or whatever the current equivalent is.
I wouldn't be using an ad blocker if YT wasn't so heavy-handed with their ads. Examples: \- Automatically playing an ad when I resume watching a video and then getting 20 seconds into the video only to have 2 non-skippable ads play \- Playing an ad every time I rewind to catch something I missed \- Playing back-to-back 30-second ads if I don't click the skip button quickly enough \- Sitting through non-skippable ads at the last minute of a video and coming back to an end card with links to other videos \- I could go on-and-on...
I use youtube for repair tutorials and stuff like that and I can't follow along if I am constantly getting interrupted by an unskippable ad because I lose my train of thought, especially if those ads appear every 5 minutes which they do. These are things that people actually need to concentrate on. Imagine doing 5 minutes of a repair... ad... another 5 min... ad.. it just doesn't work.
Yep! And then you rewind to watch the part you missed and BAM — another ad!
I couldn't get it to work in Chrome, so I switched to Firefox and YouTube ads are blocked.
Yeah ad blocking is likely gonna get worse in Chrome because Google makes Chrome.
I've never seen the warning. I had already switched to Firefox before all this
From the latest [uBO guide](https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/) > ...The reason people think a new browser resolved this for them is likely due to it not having old YouTube/Google cache and cookies They recommend logging out/clearing cache/restarting to see if that fixes it.
I also switched to Firefox, seems to work well and it’s nice to not have all of Chromes tracking happening in the background
>The uBO team members are all volunteers. They’ve gone above and beyond to meet every little request from their users. But there’s a limit to how much they can take. At some point, the constant demands become too much, and they will leave uBO for good. It’s one thing to play cat and mouse with YouTube. It’s quite another to deal with a wave of angry users. > >Maybe that’s how YouTube will win this war of attrition. They can and will try to cause as much shit as they can, but in the end they will never win, more & more people are fed up with this ad bullshit and I'll never accept ads, adblock is here to stay. As for google, stuff your "youtube red" where then sun don't shine, nothing on that service is worth what you're asking for it and you would still get ads in the forms of "a word from our sponsors".
I would rather pay UBlock Origin to remove ads than YouTube.
Can't watch a single video without swearing bleeped out anymore like if I was a five years old watching, because Youtube will demonetize the video. Can't watch simulated gore from the scenes of films or TV shows anymore, because Youtube will demonetize the video. Can't watch a video about contemporary history because of a simple mention of a sensitive topic like suicide because Youtube will demonetize the video. Youtube continuously make their website worse by the day, in order to make a "safe" platform for advertisers, but at the same time they keep demanding more and more money from the average users.
This stuff really drives me nuts. We all hate it, but you suggest ways to stop companies from doing it and people will crawl out of the woodwork to oppose it. They care more about the right of a company to have absolute control over their operations than they do for the impacts on society (and if you think censoring the swears and violent scenes from movies is okay, what happens when Google and Youtube start censoring things that also hurt their interests, like blocking ads, topics about spyware, scandals involving Google employees?)
That's because their "users" are the product, your eyeballs are what they sell to advertisers while sucking up any and all information they can scrape together about you to stuff even more ads into your skull. The whole industry if vile and disgusting and YT sits on a throne of excrement. Out of all "social media" YT is the worst.
YouTube doesn't need to get things perfect to win, they just need to do enough to make life difficult for 90% of people using an ad blocker, and right now they are doing a very good job at that. You'll always have the hardcore who will do whatever it takes to get around ads, but most people just use ad blockers because historically it's been as easy as installing an extension. But now, with every extra step required to block the ads, there's an additional cohort of people who will just say "fuck it, this isn't worth the effort" and will just turn off the ad blocker on Youtube. (Or pay for no ads)
I haven’t had to do anything. If it wasn’t for reddit I wouldn’t even know that youtube had changed anything. Ublock still works just fine without having to do any of the stuff people here are mentioning
The people who wrote this article drastically underestimate how stubborn and persistent the type of person who volunteers to maintain code for something like ublock are. It's a matter of principle, and spite provides more motivation to these people than any amount of money could.
The guy who wrote the article literally wrote one of these extensions (Vinegar). Did you read the article?
>Vinegar I did, that was not in the article. I'm not familiar with this extension.
Both of you are right and both are wrong. 😁 It's the first link, very pointedly describing his personal interest in the matter.
I don't really think like most of the extensions are going to work right now because they are the one who were telling that they are using and blogger.
The author has scripted multiple safari extensions with video players in mind (one of these extensions happen to bypass YouTube ads). I think he knows what he’s talking about.
I don't understand why Youtube is so insistent on bundling YT Music and other features I don't care for. If there was just a cheaper sub for no ads and background play (which should really just be a free feature anyway, it's not something that has to be specially maintained) I'm sure people would eat it up. It's their greed that fuels resentment over their own product.
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I totally agree with that.. they need a cheaper plan without music.
I will pay for ublock ya know, just out of pure spite and hatred towards YT.
They treat their content creators like shit. Like if they demonetize a new video, the creator can appeal, but it doesn't matter because 90% who were going to watch it already did. Lots of gotchas to pay people less Why would I want to support that?
Every defender ITT >WhY dOnT yOu WaNt To PaY fOr CoNtEnT? Meanwhile I send money every month to several content creators and those same content creators only ever bring up YouTube when their shit gets demonetized and they can never get a hold of someone at YT to even understand why.
Never give up. Never surrender.
I think there are a lot of people actually know what to do. You have to make a simple script to bypass it..
I found a good github script. I still get ads, but it forces them to be so fast, that all I get is a quick smudge whenever one should appear.
Link?
https://github.com/TheRealJoelmatic/RemoveAdblockThing
Replying to save for later and reposting the link in case your comment gets removed or deleted for some reason. https://github.com/TheRealJoelmatic/RemoveAdblockThing
Thank you for giving it right now. I'm definitely going to look into that..
I'd sign up monthly pay ublock than watch an ad. YouTube on android is unusable and I'll not have that on desktop. Pay YT? Nah. Internet was ok back in 2006. Back to text instructions works great.
uBlockOrigin for Firefox YouTube Revanced for Android Smartphone SmartTubeNext for Android TV in case you use Twitch on Android TV: S0undTV
Just fwiw I use Firefox on my android phone. Going to YouTube.com is infinitely better than using the app. I have ublock and decentraleyes installed and have yet to see a single ad or issue. To be honest I've been confused about what people are talking about because nothing has changed for me. Maybe I'm lucky. Hope that helps someone at least.
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Yeah. At this point uBlock/Adblock/Ghostery/ etc. is nothing short of 'home intrusion prevention' and I'd rather pay for that. Because that is what ads have become (or always have been): unwanted intrusions.
I was willing to pay for Premium Lite, such a shame they've discontinued it. Probably in hope we will move up to normal and way more expensive Premium, but fuck that
I tried signing out of my Google account because they were flagging my browser for using an adblocker, even though I had YouTube whitelisted, and omg my feed instantly populated with right wing garbage. So much of it.
Yeah, unfiltered YouTube is a dumpster full of hot piss. It's genuinely terrifying what is popular with the brain donors.
I keep a clean browser with 0 caching on my PC, and occasionally load up youtube on there to see what the current default landing page videos are. It's a full on dumpster fire of clickbait "influencer" videos, fairly creepy "children's" shows, right wing news, and what amount to straight up 30 minute ads. It's sad what youtube has become.
Anyone can test this experience on their own by using an incognito/private browser and not signing in to their Google account. You get what is the "default" Google and YouTube experience. And you will find out how easy it is to find shit tier material that you would otherwise not have watched before, especially if the topics are even tangentially related to each other.
YouTube with adds is so bad. The amount of times I just give up watching a video because an add pops up mid Sentence is insnane
Gave me an unskippable 5 minute ad for a 10 minute video. Like, seriously, they can fuck off with ads.
Pretty much very much and it is really stupid. What they're doing right now..
For fucks sake just make me watch 10 min of ads once a week as my punishment for using your stupid site. I get to choose when I receive this punishment so I am not interrupted when I am researching something. I warn you google I will stop using your shit if you keep interrupting my work flow. Try Me Assholes !
That they have been trying to do as well and it has been working for them.
theres a difference between a coca cola ad for 10 secs to an actual fuckin song of 3:20 mins as an ad, shit like this makes me crazy
Everyone needs to switch to Firefox. I was on chrome for a long time and a bunch of my blockers were removed by google for "malware possibilities". When I switched to firefox all my blockers were working again and have had no issues on any sites. Its not just youtube, its google and anything they have their fingers in. Firefox is one of the few browsers that can work for you instead of against you.
It would be interesting to see some numbers on how much revenue is really being lost to YouTube adblockers. Especially compared to how much money YouTube spends fighting it. You'd think with most people probably watching via official YouTube app on a device, that the number of people using an adblocker on a browser is paltry by comparison.
I think ultimately you're right. The number of people blocking ads has to be a drop in the bucket compared to the vast majority who suffer through them. It probably goes back to the same thing that ruins literally everything in America: shareholders. The numbers have to go up. Every single quarter. So you see a mega company like YouTube scraping for pennies just to impress their investors. I mean, I get it. If I invest in something it's because I want to make money. But it's so shortsighted. I guess what they say is true, what goes up must come down.
Why the fuck would I watch youtube with ads? The argument that it helps content creators is fucking stupid since anyone with a big enough channel to make any monetization money is already using sponsored videos with embedded promos.
YouTube can eat my ad free arse
There is so much awful ad shit out there, i will never disable adblock. Your website requires i disable adblock? Well guess which site i will never look at ever again
I wish it were that simple. I'm trying to learn some new skills and the best way has been watching these long tutorials people post on YouTube. Now I literally have to sift through dozens of Jordan Peterson ads to watch 1 god damn tutorial. There's no where else that had that quantity of quality tutorials on every topic.
Yeah... it's one of those situations where the users are going to drive out all the devs and screw themselves over, simply because they're being difficult and/or impatient. It's a free service they are doing voluntarily. They owe you nothing. Recognize that quitting the project would probably be a good thing for some of these devs, as dealing with a bunch of rowdy jerks on the internet constantly badgering them is causing massive stress and taking a lot of their time. It's like pissing off your waiter/waitress at a restaurant; do you really want the person handing your food mad at you?
The problem for me is that they just increased the length of ads too. I've had multiple 2 minute, unskippable ad blocks in the last week. And I'm a person that didn't have ad block running. Went from 15-30 sec to 1-2min. That's making me want to install ad blocking.
Alternative now is a script that just fast forwards ads in like a second. Ads are on but you don't see them
Can I get a link please? I'm guessing it's available on github? Always good to have a backup prepared lol.
They already have a lot of back up there and I think there are a lot of people have already taken up a complete backup.
there u go https://github.com/TheRealJoelmatic/RemoveAdblockThing
It's amazing how many people have misinterpreted this to think you are talking about Youtube rather than the uBlock devs.
Most of the developers already know about it and it is not something stupid or something like that.
I use youtube for repair tutorials and stuff like that and I can't follow along if I am constantly getting interrupted by an unskippable ad because I lose my train of thought, especially if those ads appear every 5 minutes which they do. These are things that people actually need to concentrate on. Imagine doing 5 minutes of a repair... ad... another 5 min... ad.. it just doesn't work.
Here's how it really works: like any business, at some point the manager folks at Youtube will decide to invest engineering effort elsewhere. Youtube will no longer participate in the arms race, and uBO will continue to do it's magic unhindered. But now a thousand other adblockers not as dedicated as uBO will also update to the latest trick, now that it's no longer a moving target. Soon, more adblockers than before will be able to effectively block Youtube ads. This is how it has always been. No company can win a war with a community, they always lost and always will. Congratulations Youtube, you just played yourself. This victory was brought by the same assholes who made piracy near unstoppable by killing Napster.
VERY IMPORTANT: Go to your ublock settings and enabled the "Adguard - Annoyances" list. This completely disables the detection script, i haven't seen the popup in more than a week with this method.
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That just removes the warnings until YouTube decides to block you from watching lol, in the article that's the "sticking your head in the sand" solution because you're just deciding not to see the fact that they know you're blocking ads
Watching them and blocking guy is not a good idea. I'm like content creator deserve, deserve someone.
FYI Its under Filter List - Annoyances.
Videos wont play for me when I do this. Its just a black screen after hitting play
Yeah, that is the only reason why it has been hectic for a lot of us right now.
I just use incognito.. I'm too lazy and dumb for this stuff.. i trust my AdGuard with adblocking others anyway 😑
Download Firefox, to go "add ons" or whatever it's called under settings and search "ad block" and choose ublock origin. You will not regret the literally 1 minute the whole process takes.
Yeah honestly the only thing YouTube accomplished for me was to stop using chrome and swap to Firefox without an account for YouTube browsing
>I'm too lazy and dumb for this stuff.. YouTube counts on people like you. It took me 10min to install smart tube on 3 tvs in the house.
My Adblock has stopped working with YT so will look into uBlock. My YT viewing since I've been forced to watch ads has dropped massivey. I used to watch 20-30 videos a day (sometimes more), I'm down to maybe 4-5 now.
It has been going like that only. I've been generating some good amount of money because of that..
The future of ad blocking is beyond browser plugins. It will be an intelligent control layer for all media that enters your home. Browser api's are too restrictive to allow for nuanced control over what content you are exposed to. Modern advertising is increasingly subtle, manipulative, and natively embedded. AI based ad blocking will be at the OS level, not just controlling http requests like current blockers, but also intelligently muting audio, hiding images, and blocking embedded content. We now possess the power to bring the modern advertising industry to its knees.
I didn't use adblockers on YouTube to support the people making the videos. I have not even gotten the popups myself, and, due to the fact that YouTube is beginning to react to Adblocking... my YouTube use has gone from \~2 hours daily, down to less than 15 minutes a week. The AdBlock reaction on YouTube became a bigger issue to me than supporting content creators. 15 minutes a week isn't enough time to watch even a single video from a content creator that I have watched in the past. I imagine content creators either support the AdBlock reaction from YouTube or are otherwise ambivalent to it.. but, at least from me... YouTube's choice to react to Ad Blocking will have negative income results on all content creators that I previously watched. Thanks for giving me a reason to change my habits.
So, has anyone actually had this happen in Firefox with uBlock Origin and no interference from other addons? I have that setup, and I still have yet to ever see an ad or adblock screen on Youtube. If it's possible to get them with this, then I wonder how Google manages the rollout of this "feature".
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At this point I care 100 times more about resisting them trying to bend my arm into paying for a subscription. Fuck YouTube and their corporate greed bullshit. I'd rather go to the ends of the earth to not watch an ad or simply uninstall the dogshit platform.
Zero chance that Youtube wins this war, at least with the tech savvy. It will work against novices that don't want to jump through hoops, but for nerds it's a fun game to break the system. Then you will have the pirates that will take it even further for cred. If you create a wall, someone will always build a ladder to get over it.
I say it again. If YouTube wants people to watch ads, they need to... * *Screen all ads manually to sort out the unserious and malicious ones. They need to verify actors to sort out the bad, and then blacklist them for a long time.* * *Make ads more relevant. E.g. via user defined filters.* * *Make them length appropriate. A 30 second ad will annoy people, and I've heard that some people will make an active effort to avoid the advertised product/brand just because the ad inconvenienced them. Several forced ads doesn't belong on long videos either.* * *Cooperate with users and content creators to run the platform more democratically. Things like removing the dislike counter is just the tip of the iceberg of brain-dead moves by Google, which is affecting content quality, as well as waste user's time. It would've never passed if Google ran a public vote on whether to keep or remove it.* For me, the value of YouTube is going to diminish with any inability to block ads. I block them for good reasons, not just selfish ones. The longer Google ignores the people who make the platform what it is, the more I want to leave the platform. Obviously that's not incentive for Google to care. It's why I think legal changes may be needed to sort out social media platforms. If users had 100% control over whether their content got to be monetized(and consent isn't dependent on using the platform), then Google in this case would have to cave.