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Paying for it would be worth it, the ads are ridiculous nowadays. 30-second ads in front of 35-second videos, etc. So, mission accomplished. Unfortunately, aft

Paying for it would be worth it, the ads are ridiculous nowadays. 30-second ads in front of 35-second videos, etc. So, mission accomplished. Unfortunately, after paying for the subscription you would have to make sure you were always signed in whenever you hit a YouTube link -- across devices, browsers, etc. Plus, I dunno about you guys but I have a Google identity for work and a personal one. Plus, imagine hitting a YouTube link in a Twitter app on your mobile device. Et cetera. So the chance that you'll be signed in with the right identity would actually be pretty low. So in reality, you'd pay them and then continue to see ads. Lovely.

photex 12y ago
I close the browser tab immediately when an ad starts or hit the back button on my phone. I'd love to be able to support content creators without subjecting my mind to advertisements. Hopefully they find a solution to the issues you've mentioned here.
- scrollaway 12y ago
  Some content creators enable a donation button on youtube (which was officialized a few weeks back). Hit that for the creators you like, and install adblock. At this point, I don't see any other choice.
pbreit 12y ago
I find precisely the opposite: YouTube is just about the only venue where you can skip ads after just 5 seconds.
- morsch 12y ago
  That's true for most ads. I sometimes get 20-25 second ads that are not skippable on my tablet. I'd say they make up about 5-10% of all the ads I get on YouTube.
spuz 12y ago
If you have two google accounts, you should use browser profiles. In chrome, I have two windows one for work and one for home which both have their own settings, plugins, cookies, history etc. You can set that up by going to Chrome's settings and adding a new user.
- techdragon 12y ago
  Not everyone uses chrome. I ditched chrome 3 months ago and happily recovered hours of my battery life. Not coming back till chrome stops taking 30% off my battery life... Only VMware Fusion uses more battery life on my laptop.
  - quesera 12y ago
    Firefox also has profiles. I use one explicitly for YouTube, because I disable all the things YouTube needs to work in my primary profile.

photex 12y ago

I close the browser tab immediately when an ad starts or hit the back button on my phone. I'd love to be able to support content creators without subjecting my mind to advertisements. Hopefully they find a solution to the issues you've mentioned here.

scrollaway 12y ago
Some content creators enable a donation button on youtube (which was officialized a few weeks back). Hit that for the creators you like, and install adblock. At this point, I don't see any other choice.

pbreit 12y ago

I find precisely the opposite: YouTube is just about the only venue where you can skip ads after just 5 seconds.

morsch 12y ago
That's true for most ads. I sometimes get 20-25 second ads that are not skippable on my tablet. I'd say they make up about 5-10% of all the ads I get on YouTube.

spuz 12y ago

If you have two google accounts, you should use browser profiles. In chrome, I have two windows one for work and one for home which both have their own settings, plugins, cookies, history etc. You can set that up by going to Chrome's settings and adding a new user.

techdragon 12y ago
Not everyone uses chrome. I ditched chrome 3 months ago and happily recovered hours of my battery life. Not coming back till chrome stops taking 30% off my battery life... Only VMware Fusion uses more battery life on my laptop.
- quesera 12y ago
  Firefox also has profiles. I use one explicitly for YouTube, because I disable all the things YouTube needs to work in my primary profile.