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You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain (2020)

14 points by ddtaylor 4y ago

drKarl 4y ago
And as commented by another redditor, it also works to bypass paywalls on news sites!
randomNumber7 4y ago
You can also bypass YouTube ads with an adblocker (like uBlock Origin) ;)
- the_biot 4y ago
  I'll never understand why YouTube allows their ads to be trivially bypassed like that, instead of just making them part of the video stream. It would ruin YouTube for me, so I'm not complaining.
  - xigoi 4y ago
    How would users be able to click on the ad then?
    - gota 4y ago
      Also, how would they serve people who pay Youtube Premium (or whatever its called now) ad free videos
  - romeovs 4y ago
    YouTube themselves haven't done this, but a lot of content creators have started integrating their own ads and sponsorship deals into their content. This is often done in fun ways where the ad is integrated into the content of the video, so it doesn't annoy me too much and can actually be a fun break from the content of the video. But for the videos where it _does_ annoy me, I use SponsorBlock [0]. It's an browser extension that lets its users mark certain sections of a video as "ad", "sponsor deal", "self-promotion", etc. to effectively build a crowd-sourced database of ad sections in YouTube videos. The database is shared and used by the extension to skip the marked sections on most videos I've encountered. [0]: https://sponsor.ajay.app/ https://sponsor.ajay.app/
4oo4 4y ago
Ahh I totally forgot about this. I'm wondering if you could make this work with any YouTube app where you can't use content filtering (like the app for Roku) across your whole network by creating a CNAME from youtube.com to youtube.com. in DNS? Though maybe that wouldn't work since DNS queries see those two domains as equivalent since '.' is just a delimiter. I should be a responsible adult and pay for YouTube Premium, but I also try really hard to limit how much time I spend on it. Also, because of how annoying and intrusive the ads are (I'd say they're more frequent than regular TV commercials), I refuse to fall into their dark pattern to give them money. The harder you push me the more I resist out of spite :)
onetokeoverthe 4y ago

14 points by ddtaylor 4y ago

drKarl 4y ago

And as commented by another redditor, it also works to bypass paywalls on news sites!

randomNumber7 4y ago

You can also bypass YouTube ads with an adblocker (like uBlock Origin) ;)

the_biot 4y ago
I'll never understand why YouTube allows their ads to be trivially bypassed like that, instead of just making them part of the video stream. It would ruin YouTube for me, so I'm not complaining.
- xigoi 4y ago
  How would users be able to click on the ad then?
  - gota 4y ago
    Also, how would they serve people who pay Youtube Premium (or whatever its called now) ad free videos
- romeovs 4y ago
  YouTube themselves haven't done this, but a lot of content creators have started integrating their own ads and sponsorship deals into their content. This is often done in fun ways where the ad is integrated into the content of the video, so it doesn't annoy me too much and can actually be a fun break from the content of the video. But for the videos where it _does_ annoy me, I use SponsorBlock [0]. It's an browser extension that lets its users mark certain sections of a video as "ad", "sponsor deal", "self-promotion", etc. to effectively build a crowd-sourced database of ad sections in YouTube videos. The database is shared and used by the extension to skip the marked sections on most videos I've encountered. [0]: https://sponsor.ajay.app/ https://sponsor.ajay.app/

4oo4 4y ago

Ahh I totally forgot about this. I'm wondering if you could make this work with any YouTube app where you can't use content filtering (like the app for Roku) across your whole network by creating a CNAME from youtube.com to youtube.com. in DNS? Though maybe that wouldn't work since DNS queries see those two domains as equivalent since '.' is just a delimiter. I should be a responsible adult and pay for YouTube Premium, but I also try really hard to limit how much time I spend on it. Also, because of how annoying and intrusive the ads are (I'd say they're more frequent than regular TV commercials), I refuse to fall into their dark pattern to give them money. The harder you push me the more I resist out of spite :)

onetokeoverthe 4y ago