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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/