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Too many ads on YouTube?

by paulpauper·10y ago·4 comments·view on hn ↗

Anyone else notice an explosion of ads on YouTube in the past few months? It seems like every video now has an ad at the beginning ,with some videos having those annoying 15 second ads and ands that appear in the middle of the video. Then you have the annoying adsense ads that cover the video like an ugly quilt

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There was a certain point about 6 months ago when I got intensely angry at the intrusive ads, and looked for adblockers. I have found a few that claimed to work to varying degrees, but none of them actually blocked all the ads. About three months ago, it got worse, and the added motivation made me find the appropriately named Adblock for Youtube™[1]. It's a Chrome extension (sorry, other browsers!). It works.

https://goo.gl/3bQcha

Uh, welcome to the internet? Outside the internet you can vote with your money, on the internet you must vote with your time(youtube's product). Stop selling your time to youtube.

you can buy youtube red and vote with your money.

No. I try to stay away from it. When I can't I just let my privacy tools and ad blocker block them.