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Youtube doesn't have adds. Or at least I haven't seen one and I have watched it for years almost every day. I'm completely serious, I haven't seen an add on yo

Youtube doesn't have adds. Or at least I haven't seen one and I have watched it for years almost every day. I'm completely serious, I haven't seen an add on youtube ever! You don't have to believe me. :-) I enjoy not having to watch them. I must say this is an interesting response.

AdamTReineke 12y ago
Are you running AdBlock?
- readerrrr 12y ago
  No, only NoScript but you have to enable a couple of scripts to watch it. I do have a very extensive list of blocked names in my hosts file.
  - sillysaurus3 12y ago
    I don't know why this is downvoted, because it's interesting if it's true.
    - readerrrr 12y ago
      Give me a couple of youtube videos that display adds for you.
      - bombtrack 12y ago
        Before I commented I wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy, so I actually tested it with ABP off. This video [1] played a 30s Coors Lite commercial for me after I disabled ABP and refreshed. Any corporate/official type channel will likely be heavily monetized and feature ads prior to starting. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRN_LkCa_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRN_LkCa_o
        readerrrr 12y ago
        Video started immediately, I didn't touch anything. The video ended uninterrupted at 4:30. An small annotation link to a different song appeared for a couple of seconds, at the bottom left. Those annotations can be disabled in the ui. Of course that as any other annotation, didn't pause the video. Apart from that there were no adds. ( choose a better song next time please :-) )
        bombtrack 12y ago
        If you disable NoScript do you see an ad prior to the video? (I didn't look closely at it -- was in a "popular videos" cluster and VEVO stuff will always have ads)
        readerrrr 12y ago
        No ads if I disable it.
        bombtrack 12y ago
        My last guess is that you're in a country advertisers don't care about. Other than that, I've lost interest and hope you enjoy your loophole ;)
        readerrrr 12y ago
        Thank you; I pretty sure they care about my country though, especially since adds were displayed on a friends computer on the same network. I'm sure that careful readers( not that many apparently :-) ) will spot the cause.
        corobo 12y ago
        Yeah you have the ad domains in your hosts file which causes the ad load to fail. Pretty caveman technique but if it works it works
- aDevilInMe 12y ago
  I run adblock, noscript and a none chromium based browser; I also never see adverts on youtube.
bombtrack 12y ago
YouTube most definitely has ads. However, if you use Adblock Plus (or similar extensions) you won't see them.

AdamTReineke 12y ago

Are you running AdBlock?

readerrrr 12y ago
No, only NoScript but you have to enable a couple of scripts to watch it. I do have a very extensive list of blocked names in my hosts file.
- sillysaurus3 12y ago
  I don't know why this is downvoted, because it's interesting if it's true.
  - readerrrr 12y ago
    Give me a couple of youtube videos that display adds for you.
    - bombtrack 12y ago
      Before I commented I wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy, so I actually tested it with ABP off. This video [1] played a 30s Coors Lite commercial for me after I disabled ABP and refreshed. Any corporate/official type channel will likely be heavily monetized and feature ads prior to starting. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRN_LkCa_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRN_LkCa_o
      - readerrrr 12y ago
        Video started immediately, I didn't touch anything. The video ended uninterrupted at 4:30. An small annotation link to a different song appeared for a couple of seconds, at the bottom left. Those annotations can be disabled in the ui. Of course that as any other annotation, didn't pause the video. Apart from that there were no adds. ( choose a better song next time please :-) )
        bombtrack 12y ago
        If you disable NoScript do you see an ad prior to the video? (I didn't look closely at it -- was in a "popular videos" cluster and VEVO stuff will always have ads)
        readerrrr 12y ago
        No ads if I disable it.
        bombtrack 12y ago
        My last guess is that you're in a country advertisers don't care about. Other than that, I've lost interest and hope you enjoy your loophole ;)
        readerrrr 12y ago
        Thank you; I pretty sure they care about my country though, especially since adds were displayed on a friends computer on the same network. I'm sure that careful readers( not that many apparently :-) ) will spot the cause.
        corobo 12y ago
        Yeah you have the ad domains in your hosts file which causes the ad load to fail. Pretty caveman technique but if it works it works
aDevilInMe 12y ago
I run adblock, noscript and a none chromium based browser; I also never see adverts on youtube.

bombtrack 12y ago

YouTube most definitely has ads. However, if you use Adblock Plus (or similar extensions) you won't see them.