So today I watched probably about 5 hours of youtube content and I think I only ran into about 2 ads during the entire experience I really don’t experience that many ads on youtube anymore and I have turned off my ad blockers and such explicitly for Youtube since I wanted to give at least a little bit of ad revenue to the content creators that I watched at the time that I turned it off. Yet I continuously hear that people have been having problems with too many ads and that ads are ruining the experience on youtube. How many ads do people who watch without ad blocker get on a video such that it’s seemingly ruining the experience?
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There is a series my kid likes. I am not exaggerating when I say there is an ad after every two minutes, maybe even more frequently than that.
Not only that, but I have seen ads that show up that have a time as long as 45 minutes!
My head hangs low and I feel ashamed when I say I purchased Premium. They got me. I never would have if it weren’t for my kids.
I got those uunskippable 45 minute ads during the 2019 federal election but I haven’t gotten any of those ones since then. That definitely made me turn on an ad blocker till the elections ended.
Why would you turn off an adblocker?
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I always have UBlockOrigin active (to the point I even forget I’m running it) and a couple days ago I got my first YouTube ad in a pretty long time. Even then, it was all skippable stuff every 2-3 videos in a music playlist, so nothing to complain about really.
What I can’t stand is when they appear mid video interrupting an interesting sequence. That’s awful “greed before UX” design.
I’m even worse. I just pay for YouTube Premium. It’s pretty worth. I get a full music streaming service and no ads for $13. It’s actually such a good deal, that I’m judging whether or not to permanently drop Spotify.
I haven’t been on youtube’s official domain in ages, it is just too cancer
You should start using Invidious or Piped. My favorite instance invidious instance is yewtu.be.
Planning to move to a Tor only browser setup soon, so that’s going to be fun. I wouldn’t be able to consoom youtube content using that setup without Invidious.
Also, it works without JabbaScript, which is a huge bonus
Why? Youtube’s official domain isn’t cancer to me. I see no reason to use any external thing.
Just need some extensions like uBlock and it works alright.
If you’re privacy aware, or use the Tor browser you’ll quickly see why it’s so cancer. The site is also bloated as fuck, and requires you to waste about ~300 mb just to watch a video
Bonus, Invidious has no ads
Please share this awesome setup you have… i would love to get rid of ads.
I still get ads like I have a small square off to the side of the video but I don’t get very many ads in my videos and I don’t understand why. I have ad block plus (Ignore Youtube), popup blocker for chrome (Ignore Youtube) and UBlock Origin (Ignore Youtube) so I’m honestly confused by it.
Im using pihole, advlock plus and noscript. I get the ads during and after youtube videos still
what’s with all the (ignore youtube) in the titles?
Sounds like that might be a hint as to why you get ads on youtube.
I know I get ads on youtube (my adblockers are set up so that I do), it’s that I don’t get many ads on youtube for some reason.
Revanced on Android, uBlock extension on browser.
