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Ask HN: Anyone else getting continuous adverts from YouTube?
As per the title, anyone else getting continuous adverts from Youtube, making it impossible to watch anything on Youtube? Cant jump forward as it goes straight to an advert, even started watching youtube channels in the search list, but the youtube controls keep changing as well as well as dissappearing. One even managed to crash the computer, wiped out the screen, the keyboard, the mouse.
Keep getting an Eon advert over and over again, 20 seconds long, singing away something about time is running out, and then immediately after the Eon advert loads of junk adverts for spurious health conditions which all seem to be voiced over by the same bloke?
- anigbrowl 3y agoOn the (adblocked) computer, no. On my console (hooked up the to the TV) it's so unpleasant that I rarely use it any more. Worse than broadcast television, which is some sort of achievement.
- pwg 3y ago> anyone else getting continuous adverts from Youtube No -- because I download anything I might want to watch from youtube with yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation) and then watch with my native viewer -- so no ads, besides those the creators insert directly into the video itself.
- satvikpendem 3y agoYou can use SponsorBlock on yt-dlp as well, which is what I do sometimes.
- hotpotamus 3y agoI use yt-dlp to keep an archive of videos I don't want YouTube to disappear (mostly music videos). What would be nice is some automation to allow yt-dlp to subscribe to channels and pull down the latest videos for you. I have to imagine it's been done by someone already, but maybe I'll take a stab at it too.
- garciasn 3y agohttps://github.com/Jeeaaasus/youtube-dl https://github.com/Jeeaaasus/youtube-dl
- rahimnathwani 3y agohttps://github.com/meeb/tubesync https://github.com/meeb/tubesync It will automatically download new videos from any public channel or playlist.
- pwg 3y ago> What would be nice is some automation to allow yt-dlp to subscribe to channels and pull down the latest videos for you. Point yt-dlp at the channel url, and use yt-dlp's --download-archive option. Result, new, not before downloaded, items get downloaded. Wire up to cron to run periodically, you have an "auto-downloader".
- throwaway019254 3y agoNo, using ublock origin and don’t see any ads.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoUsing ublock origin I’ve started to see adds on chrome. If I click back and then forward, it skips the ads. This occurs only at the start of videos afaict.
- spartanatreyu 3y agoUblock Origin works better on Firefox. I see no ads on there. Not that it's going to matter anyway: - Youtube's experimenting with a strike system for adblockers - while they're getting spammed with AI generated content - and trying to charge a stupidly high $15 a month for "ad-free" access for a bundle where no-one wants what's in the bundle except for no ads and background-playback on phones. If youtube goes ahead with their strike system, doesn't clear out their AI spam, and doesn't unbundle their overpriced premium subscription, I'll probably end up switching to nebula. $50 a year (~ $4 a month) for human created content without ads.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoFirefox on Linux doesn’t support hardware decoding. I suspect I’m in a test group currently, I’ve not seen ads till recently.
- yomlica8 3y ago> - Youtube's experimenting with a strike system for adblockers Are they going to ban based on your account, or ip blocks? Never figured that out. I never use youtube logged in.
- pb7 3y agoNo, I pay for premium.
- linguae 3y agoAnd, of course, the price of Youtube Premium just went up this month (I'm also a Premium subscriber). Seems like Big Tech this year is focused this year on trying to optimize its revenue streams (e.g., more ads on Youtube, crackdowns on password sharing on Netflix).
- pb7 3y agoStill cheaper than virtually every streaming service for equivalent plans. Max and Netflix are both $20/mo for 4K ad-free.
- muzani 3y agoWhen Spotify raised prices, I evaluated other services. I found that YT music was a thing and at the time I was listening to more music on YT (mostly covers) than Spotify. Kids get baby shark without ads. So it was an easy decision. YouTube has a family plan, which was a bit pricier than the Spotify. But that family plan also means I could share my Google One (i.e. cloud space). Easy decision too. The services they give scale with price. Unlike Netflix, which has removed my favorite shows and are now trying to get rid of family sharing.
- muzani 3y agoSame here. It's worth it for the bundled YouTube Music, which is much better than Spotify.
- solumunus 3y agoIn what ways? I’m curious. Been a Spotify user from day 1 and it’s hard to imagine YouTube music is better, but I’m open to trying something new.
- Waterluvian 3y agoGoogle seems like it’s quietly in serious trouble based on how they’ve really really cranked up the ads. On mobile YouTube every third item is an ad. On google search I now get 5-6 YouTube links before a bunch of AI clickbait fuelled by adsense, and then maybe Wikipedia and other legit site are listed… maybe… on the first page. I’m currently migrating my habits to avoiding search engines in general, but using DDG (which I might stick with) when I need to.
- kjs3 3y agoI've found DDG to be worse than Google and no better than Bing from a search result quality perspective. Google may be showing a lot of clickbait, but Bing/DDG seem to show me links to ads from every possible entity that might want to sell me something associated with that search term, before showing me a lot of clickbait. I'm probably going to a paid search provider.
- The_SamminAter 3y agoDDG being similar to Bing does make some sense, as I seem to remember that it’s one of their major sources? As for ads, DDG kindly lets you disable them entirely under the settings menu. I personally find Google to be almost unusable now results-wise, and DDG has been better. Not always great, but at least consistently better.
- kjs3 3y agoI should have been clearer when I said 'ads'. I mean that Bing/DDG seem to front load anyone selling something related to my search term before giving me actual info about my search term. Google at least seems to try and put something relevant on the first page.
- CobaltFire 3y agoIt's paid, and I don't want to sound like a shill, but I've been extremely happy with Kagi for search.
- remram 3y ago
- squarefoot 3y agoThey've declared war on adblockers, without any regard if that makes the experience miserable for all users. That is a move doomed to fail in the long run, and being the monopolist won't help them much as the day AI can be used to filter out junk from videos and reupload them on a decentralized platform using p2p is not that far from happening.
- autoexec 3y agoWhich ad blockers are impacted? I still don't see any ads on youtube that aren't embedded in the content.
- technion 3y agoFor the last few weeks uBlock on my devices seems to have just stopped Youtube ever playing anything. I've read plenty of threads about it but gave up and turned it off for the domain.
- ian0 3y agoWeird - works fine for me. Maybe they are rolling out a change in specific regions?
- squarefoot 3y agoThere are reports of uBlock Origin occasionally not working on YT, and I experienced this 2 days ago on one video. I can't recall which video was, I thought I clicked on the wrong video, then realized it was an advertising, checked if uBO was active and indeed it was. Happened only once to me, others were apparently less lucky. This could be the result of different tests performed to discover adblockers limitations.
- nubinetwork 3y agoAt home, I use bind rpz adblock, which uses the same domain lists pihole uses. Everywhere else, I do see ads, which usually means I stay offline when I'm not home.
- stevenicr 3y agoI watched a 28 minute long ad last weekend on my phone. Is there some place that shows stats on how many ads of various lengths are delivered and not skipped / how much was watched per length?
- Minor49er 3y agoWhy would you sit through a minute of unnecessary ads, let alone 28?
- stevenicr 3y agoseveral reasons for this one.. ad was on small screen (my phone) - and I was gaming on the big screen - so it was not interrupting me in any way. Also the "I'm a digital marketer, starting to learn ads for youtube, and curious how this is actually working, so watch it and learn what can be learned from.. youtube platform, how it's visual / audio / etc is working.." had me willing to suffer more than 60 seconds.. And.. strangely it was on a topic that I studied ~18 years ago - with someone making claims I was ready to pounce on, but then became surprised that this speaker / presenter had taken over this program from the original creators - and I was super curious if any new insights would be published.. In the end I learned a little about the current state of the old program / group.. but more learned about the marketing buzz words used, the crescendos of the claims / benefits / social proofs.. of a 30 minute infomercial, and how the captioning / graphics could be presented on a vertical / tiny screen and be effective.. and of course I had to know the actual pitch and price at the end for the 'new online program thing' that has been adapted with the original stuff.. I still wonder how or IF youtube knew that I would or could be interested in the X program method or if it was just targeted towards whatever demographics the system thinks about my mini-device. Also thought whoa - what kind of crap is this YT - a 30 min ad?! How, what? Why! Is this real?! (I had seen a 2 hour ad on YT on the PS3 some years ago, that was trippy) So yeah I wonder if there are stats showing how many ads longer than 30 sec are attempted via YT and how many are watched.
- sircastor 3y agoTo be clear, was this a normal YouTube video that was advertising something, or an actual YouTube official “You can skip this in 4…” ad? It sounds like the former
- 3836293648 3y agoNope, ublock origin and revanced are working gine for me
- isanjay 3y agoInstalled Revanced last week. I can't believe I haven't installed it earlier
- jbottoms 3y agoI just got an invoice from Norton (alledgedly) and I don't use it. And it included a telephone numvber for a Debt Recovery company. We need to have wire and mail fraud extended to include email, with a bounty for Whistleblowers.
- kjs3 3y agoNot sure how this relates to YouTube, but in the US, you can get money via the FDCPA[1] if it's really a bogus debt and you're willing to pursue it. There are tons of websites that walk you through the process. [1] https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/fair-debt-collection-practices-act-text https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/fair-debt-col...
- water9 3y agoNobody has ever collected money for a TCPA violation
- kjs3 3y agoI wouldn't know if that's true, but since I wasn't talking about the TCPA, ok I guess?
- water9 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Debt_Collection_Practices_Act#By_consumer_groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Debt_Collection_Practices... Same difference. Your chances of winning of a lawsuit against some of the most powerful companies in the world is 0%
- kjs3 3y agoI used to use YT for background while I worked. I stopped when they started butting in every 5-10 minutes with an ad, at upped volume, which sorta defeated the point.
- expertentipp 3y agoFunny is when a public place like gym or shop is using yt for a background music. Suddenly the place is broadcasting the yt ads to their clients for free.
- solumunus 3y agoSimply use an ad blocker?
- kjs3 3y agoBecause ad blockers don't run on my office smart TV and PiHole doesn't block in-video ads?