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On PC, AdBlock works great on YouTube. If you're using a mobile app, yeah, I think you're SOL for now. I also would pay a monthly fee for an ad-free YouTube.

by coldpie 12y ago

kaybe 12y ago
If you block all trackers (eg ghostery) ads usually just don't show up. Seems like there are no ads without tracking.
0942v8653 12y ago
I have my Raspberry Pi set up as a DNS adblocker: https://github.com/jacobsalmela/pi-hole https://github.com/jacobsalmela/pi-hole
ashark 12y ago
Recently, I've seen two things change on YouTube: 1) (a few months ago) Adblock stopped working. Fine, ads were rare, short, and skipable, didn't bother me enough to try to fix it. 2) (a few weeks ago) The percentage of videos displaying ads increased significantly, and most of them are now unskipable. I even had one that lasted for maybe two minutes with no sign of ending the other day (it hadn't repeated yet, it was that long! There was no indication of how much longer it would be) which eventually prompted me to reload the page, which clued me in that the "unskipable" ads can be skipped immediately by refreshing the page—it rarely (maybe 5% of the time, tops) plays an ad on the second load.
- johnmcverth 12y ago
  What are you even doing on a tech site if you can't even reinstall an adblocker and select the proper lists?
- magicalist 12y ago
  > (a few weeks ago) The percentage of videos displaying ads increased significantly, and most of them are now unskipable. Whether or not ads are unskippable (and whether or not to show ads at all) is up to the video owner, so it's more likely you've just wandered into a different subset of videos recently. I almost never see unskippable ads anymore, though it seems like the worst offenders are "official" vevo music videos and (most annoyingly, since the video itself is already an ad) some studios' movie trailers.
j_s 12y ago
As of Jan'2014, stopping YouTube ads requires blocking the following domains: ads.youtube.com s0.2mdn.net s1.2mdn.net googleads.g.doubleclick.net Many routers include functionality to blacklist by domain, eg. Netgear: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20483/~/set-up-a-netgear-router-to-block-access-to-certain-websites http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20483/~/set-up...
- coldpie 12y ago
  Hey, thanks! I'll give that a shot.

On PC, AdBlock works great on YouTube. If you're using a mobile app, yeah, I think you're SOL for now. I also would pay a monthly fee for an ad-free YouTube.

by coldpie 12y ago

On PC, AdBlock works great on YouTube. If you're using a mobile app, yeah, I think you're SOL for now. I also would pay a monthly fee for an ad-free YouTube.

kaybe 12y ago

If you block all trackers (eg ghostery) ads usually just don't show up. Seems like there are no ads without tracking.

0942v8653 12y ago

I have my Raspberry Pi set up as a DNS adblocker: https://github.com/jacobsalmela/pi-hole https://github.com/jacobsalmela/pi-hole

ashark 12y ago

Recently, I've seen two things change on YouTube: 1) (a few months ago) Adblock stopped working. Fine, ads were rare, short, and skipable, didn't bother me enough to try to fix it. 2) (a few weeks ago) The percentage of videos displaying ads increased significantly, and most of them are now unskipable. I even had one that lasted for maybe two minutes with no sign of ending the other day (it hadn't repeated yet, it was that long! There was no indication of how much longer it would be) which eventually prompted me to reload the page, which clued me in that the "unskipable" ads can be skipped immediately by refreshing the page—it rarely (maybe 5% of the time, tops) plays an ad on the second load.

johnmcverth 12y ago
What are you even doing on a tech site if you can't even reinstall an adblocker and select the proper lists?
magicalist 12y ago
> (a few weeks ago) The percentage of videos displaying ads increased significantly, and most of them are now unskipable. Whether or not ads are unskippable (and whether or not to show ads at all) is up to the video owner, so it's more likely you've just wandered into a different subset of videos recently. I almost never see unskippable ads anymore, though it seems like the worst offenders are "official" vevo music videos and (most annoyingly, since the video itself is already an ad) some studios' movie trailers.

j_s 12y ago

As of Jan'2014, stopping YouTube ads requires blocking the following domains: ads.youtube.com s0.2mdn.net s1.2mdn.net googleads.g.doubleclick.net Many routers include functionality to blacklist by domain, eg. Netgear: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20483/~/set-up-a-netgear-router-to-block-access-to-certain-websites http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20483/~/set-up...

coldpie 12y ago
Hey, thanks! I'll give that a shot.