#youtube ads

[anarchopuppy]

Here's uBlock Origin's official guide to bypassing youtube's anti-adblock popups, updated weekly. Please share widely. Don't reward google for their predatory anti-consumer bullshit

To summarize: 1. Get uBlock Origin and make sure it's updated to the latest version. 2. Click on the gear icon to get to the dashboard, go to "Filter lists", and make sure that "uBlock filters - Quick fixes" is up to date

Repeat those steps any time you get another popup (google and uBlock are having an arms race right now so it might stop working at any moment), and if you have any more problems, read the reddit thread for troubleshooting advice

[ravenriel]

Don't know how far this will reach but it's worth the effort: If your youtube on browser isn't working AND you use uBlock Origin (I'm on firefox specifically, unclear if this is happening on other browsers) try this from Downdetector user Bortus:

"click uBlock icon > Open the Dashboard button > Filter Lists > Purge all caches > Update now this should fix it"

It worked for me thankfully

[nixcraft]

Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024 🤡

[toastbutteregg]

@youtube how about you make your own first aid videos or emergency videos that show up first when searched like sponsored posts and make it so those specific videos have no ads???

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

unskippable youtube ads for horror movies should be outlawed holy crap. i don't care that 'think of the kids' is considered a meme, nobody should be forced to get bombarded with blood curdling screams and disturbing flashing images with no warning when trying to watch parks and rec clips wtf

[randomitemdrop]

Item: ab patch invented by the military to grant soldiers beast forms. Each device is pre-programmed with what beast form the wearer will be granted, although a skilled artificer may be able to change it. Unusually, the transformation (both person to beast and beast back to person) is controlled by a command word spoken by an attuned commander who cannot be the one wearing the device.

[void-the-bear]

Alright everyone, YouTube wants to expand their multi-billion dollar company with ad revenue(they're banning ad blockers), so here's a way to block ads without an ad block

when you get an ad touch this fancy little i right here

and it'll bring up your ad center where you can hit "block ad" and even "report ad" if it's about something inappropriate

and when you block ad it sends you straight to the video when you x out of the ad center! It takes less than 5 second to do!

So stick it to YouTube with this little trick!

[technicolorcrows]

i think every single uBlock volunteer deserves to get sucked off sloppy style for helping the rest of us peons through youtube's latest money-grab tbh

[crayonmilkz]

Youtube anti-adblock fixes

Youtube has recently attempted to disable adblockers, they first applied a pop up but now they're completely preventing videos from being played.

If you use Chrome, please move to a different browser like Firefox. You can probably get away with it on Opera, Vivaldi, Brave or Microsoft Edge too

Firefox instructions: uBlock Origin is my current fix, and they are providing updates for every time Youtube changes its anti-adblock. What you need to do is simple! Download uBlock Origins as a Firefox extension here. (If you already have it, it is recommended to turn off all custom script to do with blocking youtube because uBlock will be doing it themselves! Make sure uBlock Origin is updated) You may need to force quick fix filters to update as seen here. If Youtube is still detecting an adblock it is very likely due to be because you have another adblock installed that is interfering with Youtube's detection. (Enhancer for Youtube extension has an inbuilt adblock you need to turn off)

Good luck!

[plebeiangoth]

I don't know what you would call this sort of mobile ad sort of art, but this render of Houlihan is my new sleep paralysis demon

[4hourvideo]

HOW TO BLOCK YOUTUBE ADS WITH UBLOCK

UBlock Origin is my best friend, if you're tired of getting ads, or getting blocked by youtubes ad blocker, you should TOTALLY use it. It's open source and trustworthy (which means its not owned by a corporation, its made by a bunch of freelance devs). They have extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and presumably most browsers. I'll be showing the chrome version in this post.

Clicking here or on the equivalent button for your browser should take you to your browser's UBlock extension.

Click this button to install, it will likely say "Add to Chrome" for you.

Any new websites you load up should be AD-FREE.

If you're still experiencing problems with youtube, or suddenly it stops working, its because youtube has changed their adblock-blocking algorithm (they change it every 12 hours to a few days), but this can be easily fixed!

Click on the extension, and head to the options page. Go to the "Filter lists" tab of the setting page in the top left.

Click on "uBlock filters - Quick fixes" on the third icon. This is usually a small clock, or this little warning symbol. After clicking this, click on "Update now".

Now if you reload your youtube page, your adblocker should work.

Although, UBlock's quick fixes doesn't work alongside other adblockers very well, so I recommend uninstalling those if youtube is still blocking you.

If reloading this doesn't work, that means that youtube has uploaded a brand new adblocker-blocker, but that means someone on UBlock's dev team is likely already hard at work fixing it. This only happens rarely, I've only seen it twice in over 500 youtube videos I've watched.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I'd rather give up desktop youtube entirely than go back to having ads. I downloaded NewPipe on my phone the other day and there are no ads, it let's me play videos in the background, and I can download audio, so I don't need to go on my laptop anymore. The new "ad-blockers are not allowed" popup has a timer on it so you can't X out of it right away, and that's just about the final straw. Fuck google. Fuck youtube. Fuck ads. Fuck capitalism. My time is precious, and I'm not going to spend it staring at products I'm never going to buy.

[redwolftrash]

i swear to fucking god

i would rather kiss a 12 gauge shotgun than watch another unskippable bass boosted SHEIN ad with the worst music i've ever heard in my life.

how do i get rid of this dumb fucking pop-up? or is it because i'm using opera for these videos and they dickride google on the tip? bc i have my shit on with vivaldi and have no issues...was regretting the switch, but now opera can keep shoving youtube's fist up their fucking ass for all i care.

[you-need-not-apply]

If your YouTube experience is now being blocked on Opera I have the solution

turn the add blocker off for as long as it takes to load the ads on one video

Turn it back on

Then continue your viewing experience in the same tab, it causes the ads to glitch out and not work :)

[attibar]

My ad blockers aren't getting past Youtube's ad-blocker-blocker so I tried humoring them "How bad can the ads be now?"

Start of a video: got back-to-back unskippable ads. Refresh window.

Two to three minutes into video: two more unskippable ads.

Six minutes into video: two more fucking ads.

This is worse than what I remember what the actual fuck. This might actually break my addiction to Youtube.

[wiggity-wiggity-wack]

YouTube ads are fucking hilarious

so I found out that they did a Shark Tank spoof with Dr. D and I said oh I should go watch it. This is the ad that was underneath it.

It was a fedora ad