Solving the YouTube excessive ad problem

thank you bob, me too! can you describe how to use it in more detail?

 

When we link youtube videos here, they play without ads, if I'm not mistaken. That's worth gold (if I'm not dreaming): how and why is that.

We're keeping up with a few Youtube channels, and a few older series, and yeah, the ads are getting crazy.

What about a Youtube subscription; is that beneficial for the Youtube contributors?

 

it must be in some way, but i doubt it reduces ads. sometimes i wait them out, sometimes i click the close button. just depends on how badly i want to see something.

i have developed a method where i start it and walk away for awhile, then i can restart without the beginning ads. but if there are ads all throughout, that becomes a pain.

 

What devices are you guys using? I have no ads, because I use adblockers.

 

Mac book pro. My kaboom ad blocker works great on websites, but not on videos

 

So what I was thinking, post the link here (for example), it'll play ad-dree?

I have another sneaky tactic:

1. In browser, copy YouTube video web address
2. Open VLC Media Player
3. Go to PullDown Media>Open Network Stream and paste
4.When video loads*, go to PullDown Tools>Codec Information, copy text in Location field
5. In browser, paste in address field
6. Now you're seeing/playing video in it's "native" location, best I can understand. You can right click and download it, and/or it play it ad-free. My main motivation doing this (it's a bit involved) is for videos I really want to salt away, just in case they get taken down or whatever.

* Every so often YouTube will "shake things up", and the above procedure doesn't work, bombs between steps 3 and 4. When this happen someone usually cobbles and publishes an updated "file" that needs to be put in a particular VLC Media Player sub-folder. It can take a while.

 

You could pay $11.99/mo to get the premium account for ads-free video and music. That being said, I don't usually watch a long video, so ads do not interrupt the viewing. Occasionally there are ads at the beginning which I can skip after 5 sec. But most of the time when I am just browsing YouTube, I view the entire video on the preview page without actually clicking and going to the page. There is no sound at least with my setting, but I can watch an entire video ad-free.

 

Number of ads depends on popularity? We've watched a number of Plum Village videos (Buddhist philosophy), never any ad interruptions.

 

I don't know if the popularity of the video is controlling the ads. But I think the number of times and duration of time you watch YouTube from a particular log-in also controls what ads at when and how often they are inserted. I watch one video and see no ads, but watch the same video again, I am greeted by ads in the beginning. I suspect if I use a different log-in credential or use a different browser, then I get different results.

 

Try the Brave browser for playing YouTube videos without ads, and to access much of the internet ad-free.

 

Brave is built on chromium, BTW, so it feels just like Chrome (and you can use Chrome extensions).

 

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Hmm...my ad blocker software also works with YouTube...and has for a long time.

 

We watch YouTube mostly via an Apple TV gizmo attached to our TV, wonder is there someway to dodge the ads with that setup? Googling a bit I'm seeing it's not straightforward.

Well, barring getting a paid YouTube subscription. If you do that some of the money goes to the video creator? That's a plus.

 

I think you are right in that watching on TV not on a computer makes ads appear more often. I don't watch it often, but when I do use my smart TV or using TV dongles (we have both Amazon Fire TV and Chromecast), it seems more ads are added. I can watch the same video ads-free if I view it on my computer browser.

 

Going through the site, as oppose to the app, likely means there are banner ads in place of the in video ones.

 

Well, if on a web browser using a computer, banners and pop-ups, if they exist, are effectively blocked by ads-blocker at least for me. For watching on TV using either a smart TV interface or dongles, unless mirroring the computer screen, YouTube is always on full-screen mode, so no banners or pop-ups can be seen.

 

Yeah..that's what I was trying to say in my earlier post. I have a 'home theatre PC' attached to my receiver and watch YouTube through a web browser ( chrome ) that has the 'AdBlock Plus' extension installed. No banner ads or ads in the videos at all.