Those ads at the beginning of Youtube videos

[Muse]

I don't remember seeing them before, at least not as often as now. It seems that all the Youtube videos I've watched in the last week or two (I've suddenly started watching a fair number of Youtube videos) have these super annoying ads. I try to skip them but they have a seemingly mandatory wait of 5..4..3..2..1 seconds before the click-to-skip function works.

Are there any workarounds for this? :\

 

[mmntech]

Yep, it's called uBlock.

 

[destrekor]

I think AdGuard Adblocker is doing well for me. Can't recall last time I saw an ad, but I don't live on youtube and may just be luckily not receiving ads on the videos I've watched.

 

[Muse]

Yep, it's called uBlock.

Muchos gracias, compadre! I'm gonna seek it out... I'm using Pale Moon, hopefully they have a version for it.

 

[mmntech]

Muchos gracias, compadre! I'm gonna seek it out...

Yep, it's the new preferred to ABP since it's lighter on system resources. I'd rather tip my favourite Youtubers a couple bucks on Patreon than deal with a 1min ad for a 30 second video.

 

[Muse]

I had Adblockplus installed but it's disabled... Pale Moon says it's known to cause instability. So, I had no ad blocking at all! Maybe I should go back to Firefox?

I just installed uBlock 1.1.1 in my Pale Moon, will see how things are working. I haven't gotten the most unobtrusive browsing experience lately. I do run Superantispyware and Malwarebytes occasionally, they find and remove a ton of tracking cookies, etc.

 

[Muse]

Yep, it's the new preferred to ABP since it's lighter on system resources. I'd rather tip my favourite Youtubers a couple bucks on Patreon than deal with a 1min ad for a 30 second video.

I always skip through those ASAP, usually it's 5 seconds, but even those 5 seconds is an intrusion. I like to watch/listen to some cool stuff!

 

[Muse]

uBlock 1.1.1 has eliminated the ads at the beginning of the Youtube videos I was watching the last few days, installed in my Pale Moon browser. Hurray! Hopefully, it's going to do some other ad-blocking.

 

[Jodell88]

Yep, it's the new preferred to ABP since it's lighter on system resources. I'd rather tip my favourite Youtubers a couple bucks on Patreon than deal with a 1min ad for a 30 second video.

Mozilla fixed a long standing bug in version 41 of Firefox that drastically reduces the memory footprint of ABP.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I always skip through those ASAP, usually it's 5 seconds, but even those 5 seconds is an intrusion.

I think ABP recently had a bug where they were successfully blocking the clickable "skip", but not the actual ad video, so one was stuck watching the whole thing or refreshing the page until no ad appeared. In Chrome anyway. Annoying to say the least, so I ended up switch to uBlock as well.

 

[Merad]

If you use Chrome, Google did an update a few weeks ago that made use of Chrome's Youtube app to bypass ad blockers and show ads. Maybe the ad blocker devs have found a way around it by now, but you can also go to chrome://apps and uninstall Youtube to fix it.

 

[SSSnail]

What ads?

 

[Aikouka]

I'm not a fan of ads at the beginning of YouTube videos. If you're searching for a video, it's a bit irritating to have to wait through an ad just to see if the video is what you're actually looking for. If you were lucky enough to find it on the first try, it's not a big deal, but those 5 seconds start to add up when you have to keep cycling through videos.

 

[clamum]

I used to use the Adblock Plus extension for Chrome which worked great. I've recently switched to using Waterfox as a browser, and uBlock Origin as the extension which also works great. I didn't realize it at the time of switching, but I've come since to learn that Adblock Plus sold out and is allowing certain ads to be displayed, for a price. So I'm glad I switched.

 

[Denly]

I rarely visit UT for that exact reason, on my recent visit to find a installation instruction there was ad in the mid of the video. WTF is that.

 

[z1ggy]

Don't the owners of the channel chose to have ads on/off? So if you're seeing a ton of ads, it's because those channels elect to have you watch them (for their own profit).

 

[QueBert]

I rarely visit UT for that exact reason, on my recent visit to find a installation instruction there was ad in the mid of the video. WTF is that.

It's how they make money, heaven forbid they want to actually make a profit and you know, stay in business. I'm watching Sports Center right now and there are commercials every 8 minutes, WTF is that.

 

[pcslookout]

Adguard is the best!

 

[Muse]

It's how they make money, heaven forbid they want to actually make a profit and you know, stay in business. I'm watching Sports Center right now and there are commercials every 8 minutes, WTF is that.

Ads on TV seems to be an unregulated plague/benefit, depending on your point of view. Myself, I virtually never watch TV in real time. Therefore I can FF through commercials (and usually do).

 

[pcslookout]

It's how they make money, heaven forbid they want to actually make a profit and you know, stay in business. I'm watching Sports Center right now and there are commercials every 8 minutes, WTF is that.

That what the best ad blockers are for. I hate advertisements of any kind.

 

[pcslookout]

Ads on TV seems to be an unregulated plague/benefit, depending on your point of view. Myself, I virtually never watch TV in real time. Therefore I can FF through commercials (and usually do).

I never watch live tv period. Haven't in over 2 years and don't even know the commercials anymore. Whenever I see one being played at a friends house, a commercial, I look at it weirdly.

 

[pcslookout]

Muchos gracias, compadre! I'm gonna seek it out... I'm using Pale Moon, hopefully they have a version for it.

So how are you liking Palemoon ? I couldn't switch to it to many of my addons don't work

I went to Firefox ESR because I have a longer time to decide what I am going to do next.

I used to use the Adblock Plus extension for Chrome which worked great. I've recently switched to using Waterfox as a browser, and uBlock Origin as the extension which also works great. I didn't realize it at the time of switching, but I've come since to learn that Adblock Plus sold out and is allowing certain ads to be displayed, for a price. So I'm glad I switched.

How do you like Waterfox ? I tried switching to it as well but couldn't because same problem some of my addons didn't work.

 

[blankslate]

I unblock ads on channels I want to support but yeah the average viewed once video I don't much care to wait 5 seconds.


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[luv2liv]

no ads with firefox on my PC.
but i do see the ads with the youtube app on my android phone. i dont think ublock works for youtube app
any advice?

 

[pcslookout]

no ads with firefox on my PC.
but i do see the ads with the youtube app on my android phone. i dont think ublock works for youtube app
any advice?

Yes Ad Guard android ad blocker!