Poll of the Day > Anyone else notice a huge uptick in YouTube ads?

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Tora_Sami
10/23/23 7:30:15 AM
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Seems I get ads like every 5 minutes and not just short ads but like 3-5 minute ads as well. They seem to be extremely frequent in pushing towards premium.

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aHappySacka
10/23/23 7:44:31 AM
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There are ads on Youtube?

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kind9
10/23/23 7:51:30 AM
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I haven't noticed. Usually when I'm watching youtube on my old kindle that doesn't have an adblocker I just get the same stupid local ad over and over and over and over again. On every other device I'm blocking ads.

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MagicalPrincess
10/23/23 7:55:21 AM
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No ads with Premium.

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Judgmenl
10/23/23 7:57:15 AM
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No ads with this novel thing called an ad blocker.

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kind9
10/23/23 7:57:56 AM
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Imagine paying $14/mo just to block ads a single website when a simple browser extension or private browser can do that for free.

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adjl
10/23/23 8:14:33 AM
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Paired with their anti-adblock campaign, it wouldn't surprise me if they've stepped up their ads in an effort to push Premium. Fortunately, their anti-adblock campaign seems to have ended the same way all such campaigns end, with me having had to wait maybe an hour before ublock updated because I was unlucky enough to catch one of the longer periods during which Youtube was winning the fight.

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Lokarin
10/23/23 8:15:37 AM
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kind9 posted...
Imagine paying $14/mo just to block ads a single website when a simple browser extension or private browser can do that for free.

ya, they should be paying US to watch the ads since it's OUR time they're wasting

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kind9
10/23/23 8:17:32 AM
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Goddamn right. Static ads on the bottom of the video were ok, video ads are big nope.

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CassandraCroft
10/23/23 9:26:59 AM
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I wouldn't know since I have desktop Firefox crammed up the wazoo with uBlock Origin, Ad Block, Ad Blocker for Youtube, Sponsor Block for Youtube and Privacy Badger.

Imagine running a browser in this day and age without an ad blocker! SMH!

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kind9
10/23/23 9:31:51 AM
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I think the uBlock devs recommend not using other blockers with uBlock as those can interfere and let ads through. And also turn off Enhanced Tracking Protection for youtube.

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Metalsonic66
10/23/23 9:39:48 AM
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Premium is worth it

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KJ_StErOiDs
10/23/23 9:50:23 AM
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Somewhat. My Adblock blocks the ad but I still get a blank loading screen for 5-10 seconds at the start of most videos now.

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SomeUsername529
10/23/23 9:52:16 AM
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kind9 posted...
I think the uBlock devs recommend not using other blockers with uBlock as those can interfere and let ads through. And also turn off Enhanced Tracking Protection for youtube.
I have a Pi Hole at work and it seems to cause some fluctuations with my uBlock on desktop and my Youtube Revanced on Android. Not major fluctuations or anything but I got two 5 second ads on mobile and it sort of shocked me.
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Krow_Incarnate
10/23/23 11:51:18 AM
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aHappySacka posted...
There are ads on Youtube?


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adjl
10/23/23 11:57:09 AM
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Lokarin posted...
ya, they should be paying US to watch the ads since it's OUR time they're wasting

Ostensibly, they're "paying" you with the videos: The time spent watching the ads is the price you pay to use the service, with advertisers paying them based on ad views and clickthroughs to compensate them for providing it.

In practice, of course, they also make money from the data they collect from us and the viewership statistics that they use to sell themselves to advertisers, plus ads are getting worse and worse (to the point where it's actually dangerous not to block them, thanks to a lack of accountability), so I really don't care what their business model expects of me.

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wwinterj25
10/23/23 12:54:44 PM
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aHappySacka posted...
There are ads on Youtube?

This is new to me too. I'm shocked!

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Tora_Sami
10/23/23 1:02:52 PM
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Ya know y'all, I don't watch YouTube on my computer. It's through my TV, so I can't use a adblocker even if I wanted to lol

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wwinterj25
10/23/23 1:08:27 PM
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Tora_Sami posted...
Ya know y'all, I don't watch YouTube on my computer. It's through my TV, so I can't use a adblocker even if I wanted to lol

Smarttube works on my firestick. It's basically youtube with a installed adblock. Not sure if it works on my Smart TV outside of that as I haven't tried it. Maybe that's something for you to look into.

Edit: https://smarttube.app/

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Tora_Sami
10/23/23 1:12:27 PM
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wwinterj25 posted...
Smarttube works on my firestick. It's basically youtube with a installed adblock. Not sure if it works on my Smart TV outside of that as I haven't tried it. Maybe that's something for you to look into.

I only watch on my smart TV, not even sure how to download smartube and I appreciate the advice, but I don't want to do any kind of 3rd party update to my TV. I'll screw something up or something will go wrong.
But anyways, this topic is more or less asking if the ads have increase to anyone without adblocker lol but it seems everyone here uses it.

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Krow_Incarnate
10/23/23 1:54:40 PM
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Metalsonic66 posted...
Premium is worth it


Tell that to my 10+ year old account that was deleted for "sexual exploitation of a minor" without cause.

I'd been using YouTube since they were on the star rating system and I can't even recall a single positive update they've had since. Instead, I can only recall things like their views on a given video being stuck at 301 and for like three solid weeks, their fix was to a plus sign so it reads 301+.

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Junior_AIN
10/23/23 2:34:28 PM
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I don't think I've ever seen a Youtube ad.
Ad blocker is awesome.

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Metalsonic66
10/23/23 4:39:14 PM
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Krow_Incarnate posted...
Tell that to my 10+ year old account that was deleted for "sexual exploitation of a minor" without cause.
"Premium is worth it"

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Hejiru
10/23/23 5:13:27 PM
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Metalsonic66 posted...
Premium is worth it

uBlock Origin is free

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DirtBasedSoap
10/23/23 6:35:32 PM
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Hejiru posted...
uBlock Origin is free
but it doesnt work when i watch YouTube on my tv

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Metalsonic66
10/23/23 7:00:05 PM
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Hejiru posted...
uBlock Origin is free
Sounds good, doesn't work for my purposes

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BlueFlameBat
10/23/23 7:25:42 PM
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I think there are now ads on some of the videos that didn't used to have them, even at least one of the videos I uploaded myself.
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So is it "did used to" or "did use to"?

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adjl
10/23/23 8:19:35 PM
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It's just "used to." "Did" is redundant in that case.

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agesboy
10/23/23 8:53:33 PM
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I had to manually clear out and redownload my uBlock filters, but they went away for good for me afterwards

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BlueFlameBat
10/23/23 8:59:43 PM
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adjl posted...
It's just "used to." "Did" is redundant in that case.
What about "didn't" though?

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adjl
10/23/23 10:18:17 PM
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BlueFlameBat posted...
What about "didn't" though?

That's needed to indicate the negative.

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agesboy
10/24/23 6:59:51 PM
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If anyone has issues as of the last two or so hours, it's fixed now. Gotta refresh some stuff

https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/

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Lokarin
10/24/23 8:22:57 PM
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agesboy posted...
If anyone has issues as of the last two or so hours, it's fixed now. Gotta refresh some stuff

https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/

ya, I had 'ghost ads' or whatever... the ad was blank and silence, but stalled for the duration of the ad

Which, honestly, is a fair compromise

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DrYuya
10/24/23 9:08:55 PM
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Peopel still saying "ublock origin" ect have you been to youtube in last few days? It's not that simple anymore.

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Blue_Thunder
10/24/23 10:15:21 PM
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DrYuya posted...
have you been to youtube in last few days?

Yep; just switched tabs from it in fact. No ads.

Purge cache and update.

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ReturnOfFa
10/24/23 10:28:01 PM
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DrYuya posted...
Peopel still saying "ublock origin" ect have you been to youtube in last few days? It's not that simple anymore.
still working for me

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adjl
10/24/23 11:38:19 PM
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DrYuya posted...
Peopel still saying "ublock origin" ect have you been to youtube in last few days? It's not that simple anymore.

It's marginally more complicated in that you might have to manually update uBlock, and there has been at least one period where Youtube was ahead of uBlock for a couple hours, but otherwise it's business as usual. Open your uBlock dashboard (the gears in the lower right), go to the Filter Lists tab, click "Purge all caches," then click "Update now." That should get things working for you again. If it doesn't, try again in a couple hours once they've had a chance to catch up.

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aHappySacka
10/24/23 11:54:43 PM
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DrYuya posted...
Peopel still saying "ublock origin" ect have you been to youtube in last few days? It's not that simple anymore.
They put up a Reddit post on how to bypass the new filter, if you haven't done it then maybe consider that you are the problem.

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BucketCat
10/24/23 11:58:44 PM
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nah, still no ads with adblock plus on firefox.

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CassandraCroft
10/25/23 1:52:56 AM
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I think I set a world record the other day.

I was on youtube and I noticed that my uBlock had this many items blocked:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/2/7/AAfUmvAAE-K7.jpg

46,000 items/ads/God knows what else blocked. My jaw hit the floor.

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agesboy
10/25/23 2:14:54 AM
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aHappySacka posted...
They put up a Reddit post on how to bypass the new filter,
the link i posted was made because apparently people were getting pissy on reddit and the original TC abandoned the topic, so i *think* my github link is the most updated. a mod post on the subreddit linked to it

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Tora_Sami
10/25/23 4:14:15 AM
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agesboy posted...
the link i posted was made because apparently people were getting pissy on reddit and the original TC abandoned the topic, so i *think* my github link is the most updated. a mod post on the subreddit linked to it

I didn't abandon it, it's just the adblocker stuff doesn't work for me cause I mainly watch YouTube on my smart TV. It seemed like ads were more frequent, so I was mainly asking people that don't use adblockers or like me use something that can't use adblockers. Everyone else is sharing adblocker info, so I can't really comment on it, since it doesn't apply to me. But I'm fine with my topic being a discussion for it.

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Hejiru
10/25/23 5:22:46 AM
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DrYuya posted...
Peopel still saying "ublock origin" ect have you been to youtube in last few days? It's not that simple anymore.

Ive been to YouTube almost every day lately, and uBlock Origin still works fine. Never saw any ads, never saw any disable your adblocker popup. Apparently some people are getting them, but it seems to be inconsistent.

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captpackrat
10/25/23 6:20:55 AM
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You can also eliminate many ads by using AdGuard public DNS. Just change your DNS settings to 94.140.14.14 and 94.140.15.15. If you can use IPv6, the addresses are 2a10:50c0::ad1:ff and 2a10:50c0::ad2:ff. You can enter these settings into your computer or you can protect your entire network by adding them to your router.

If you have an Android device you can go into the Private DNS settings and enter dns.adguard-dns.com This will allow you to block ads even over cellular where you usually can't change your DNS settings.

Full instructions are available here: https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

This isn't as effective as a dedicated ad blocker in your browser, and it won't do anything for YouTube, but it can block ads in many apps, and it works on almost any device that allows you to change your DNS settings.

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