Youtube is painful these days.

heli_av8tor said:
Some of the content providers that I enjoyed have started doing their own commercials in their videos.
When I encounter this I add them to my Blocked list and let them know in the comments.
Paying for Premium gets rid of the other ads.
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Seems like you’re cutting off your nose to spite your face. Most that have sponsors also have segmented progress bar where you can simply skip that segment.

If not I just poke around a bit until the as is gone.

I don’t mind sponsored content as it’s a more direct payment to the creator, rather than the ad rev going to YT and then YT doling out the payment.
 
I also find it is usually very easy to skip past the embedded sponsored content.
 
heli_av8tor said:
Some of the content providers that I enjoyed have started doing their own commercials in their videos.
When I encounter this I add them to my Blocked list and let them know in the comments.
Paying for Premium gets rid of the other ads.
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YT has been reducing the amount they pay the channel owners, so they are taking on more sponsors.
 
SouthernChap said:
:grin:

I skip all this by being too lazy to bother with adblockers and too tired to care overmuch about privacy worries.

I just pay Google for Premium YouTube and have done. In addition to not having to put up with adverts, I also get the extra perks from the subscription.

Not saying that's the only, or even most optimal solution but eh, it works for me. ;)

I know we got used to all these services being free back in the day, but Google have to pay their bills (particularly their electric bill! o_O:grin:) somehow. Eh, that's capitalism for you. ;)
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I also subscribe, and for a few dollars more it includes YT Music, which is very much like Spotify, Apple Music, etc. The combination of the two is well worth it for me. I run ad blockers, but don't bother to use them with YT - I can watch as much video as I like, and listen to music 8 hours a day for pennies.
 
RaisedByWolves said:
Switch to Brave browser and be done with all that.

I think I have 2 add ons, but one is simply to make YT show the like/dislike ratio and I haven’t seen an ad in years.
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@RaisedByWolves

Why should I switch browsers just to excercise my right not to have to sit through adverts?

I get adverts are necessary and for specific purpose, but I do have the option to choose not to deal with them by blocking them, as is my right, and I do not have to switch browsers to do that.

I also understand C/C need to place sponsor ads, which I do not have a problem with given the sponsors support the creators to a certain degree.
 
Ublock origin for Firefox and as of a few months ago ublock origin lite for all chromium based browsers, because the code base changed in chrome and blockers have to work differently now.

At any rate with only that blocker I get no YouTube ads and I install that for customers as well.
 
GrifterGuru said:
@woodchucker

To be fair, I run a series of YT adblockers and have no issues with YT either on firefox or Chrome though the extensions do differ a little, they ostensibly do the same thing. Yes I run "youtube" specific add-ons (extensions) alongside other extensions I do not care to list.

Here are some (not all) of the add-ons (extensions) I run and they help massively with YT adverts.

Ad Skip Master for Youtube
Hide YouTube Shorts
Improve YouTube
TubeBlock - Adblock for Youtube
Youtube-shorts block

AutoplayStopper
Yet another autoplay blocker
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I finally just gave up about a year ago and pay for YT premium- Guess they won that round. Actually use the YT music ap all the time.
 
I just pay the $18.99 per month.
No ads
 
RaisedByWolves said:
Switch to Brave browser and be done with all that.

I think I have 2 add ons, but one is simply to make YT show the like/dislike ratio and I haven’t seen an ad in years.
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I third Brave. No adds


Cutting oil is my blood.
 
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