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Turnham

Turnham

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Today, for the first time, I keep getting 2-3 ads every 5 minutes into watching You Tube videos. I have googled this and there is a site called 'ghostery' which seems to have the most positive reviews regarding ad blocking. I haven't changed anything on my laptop or phone so cannot understand why ads suddenly started appearing on You Tube today. Anyone got any advice on whether 'ghostery' app could help or any other suggestions? It's driving me nuts. I already have Norton protection with VPN etc, but couldn't see anywhere on that which can help with ad blocking.
 
@Turnham Adblocker Ultimate is the best there is and its free. Haven't had an Ad on youtube or any other site in years. You can turn it on and off and modify it if you need to by whitelisting certain sites and so on. For example I have it disabled on here so PR can make money on Ads ( I think they use them on the home page but not even sure). Its easy to do to its just a simple toggle button.

ttps://adblockultimate.net/browsers

just put the 'H" in front of the address where it belongs and you're set. It's free. And just for future reference a VPN won't help block ads but it is good for privacy :)
 
Denman said:
@Turnham Adblocker Ultimate is the best there is and its free. Haven't had an Ad on youtube or any other site in years. You can turn it on and off and modify it if you need to by whitelisting certain sites and so on. For example I have it disabled on here so PR can make money on Ads ( I think they use them on the home page but not even sure). Its easy to do to its just a simple toggle button.

ttps://adblockultimate.net/browsers

just put the 'H" in front of the address where it belongs and you're set. It's free. And just for future reference a VPN won't help block ads but it is good for privacy :)
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Thanks so much for this information. It is just odd that this only started happening yesterday, I have never had ads come on every 5 minutes during you tube videos. Sometimes there are 3 adds but the first 2 dont have the skip function, whereas the 3rd does. By that time it gets so frustrating that its completely spoiling being able to use you tube. I did so some googling on this issue and there are tons of similar comments from people saying the same thing, apparently You Tube have been able to bypass most ad blockers, rendering them useless so the adverts will play. However it sounds like the people are fighting back and coming with ways to get round You Tubes attempts at getting people to watch ads. Even if they were at the start and the end of the video, but to come on every 5 minutes into watching a 40 minute video is such a distraction.

Anyway, thanks so much and I will update how I get on.
 
@Turnham and @Denman... Apparantly YT has just installed some kind of anti-adblocker code very recently, that issues a warning a couple of times if it spots an adblocker, then locks you out of the site. I'm not sure, but I saw several threads on Reddit.

Anyway, there seem to be two ways to deal with this (actually, 3 - open the YT link in an incog window and the ads will play); 1) you can replace the address URL of the piece you want to watch, from "youtube[dot]com" to "yewtu[dot]be" followed by the rest of the URL, or you can install/use the app "FreeTube" (works on both phones and PCs afaik) and search for the YT that you want - they seem to have most everything.

There's also one other workaround that seems to work for now - instead of copying the URL, use the "share/embed" option, and it seems to still let you see the original that way. Good luck!!
 
Gosh, I see what you mean @Turnham! I have had a stressful, frantic day and have just found time to sit down and have my lunch and watch some Britain's Got Talent compilations on YouTube for a bit of light entertainment. The ads are constant! They don't even come on in 'appropriate' moments. Someone is singing and suddenly an ad comes on while they are singing. Pain in the arse!

I haven't noticed this before either. An ad at the beginning that you can 'skip' after 5 seconds. Ok, no big deal. But this is sooo annoying and the ones you can't skip and have to endure their bullshit! :angry:

I first realised when the first act (one I've watched loads of times without this happening) had only just started and the gorgeous guy was just about to take his shirt off and a bloody ad came on! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
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Denman said:
@Turnham Adblocker Ultimate is the best there is and its free. Haven't had an Ad on youtube or any other site in years. You can turn it on and off and modify it if you need to by whitelisting certain sites and so on. For example I have it disabled on here so PR can make money on Ads ( I think they use them on the home page but not even sure). Its easy to do to its just a simple toggle button.

ttps://adblockultimate.net/browsers

just put the 'H" in front of the address where it belongs and you're set. It's free. And just for future reference a VPN won't help block ads but it is good for privacy :)
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I just installed it on my Chrome browser and so far so good!!! Thanks for the suggestion! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
 
pinkflower said:
Gosh, I see what you mean @Turnham! I have had a stressful, frantic day and have just found time to sit down and have my lunch and watch some Britain's Got Talent compilations on YouTube for a bit of light entertainment. The ads are constant! They don't even come on in 'appropriate' moments. Someone is singing and suddenly an ad comes on while they are singing. Pain in the arse!

I haven't noticed this before either. An ad at the beginning that you can 'skip' after 5 seconds. Ok, no big deal. But this is sooo annoying and the ones you can't skip and have to endure their bullshit! :angry:

I first realised when the first act (one I've watched loads of times without this happening) had only just started and the gorgeous guy was just about to take his shirt off and a bloody ad came on! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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I know what you mean by the ads appearing at the most appropriate moment. I was watching a reaction video on You Tube to the film Halloween and it had got to the part where Annie goes back to the car where Michael Myers is waiting and just at the moment Michael appears and strangles her, 3 adverts started playing. Then at the end when Laurie stabs Michael but you know he is going to sit back up in the backgroud, the ads started playing at that part. It's like they are picking the most important part of what you are watching and playing the ads. There is so much info online now about what You Tube have done to try and block ad blockers, but hopefully the people will win on this one.....
 
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If you have an android phone, the ReVanced app is pretty awesome. It's the best YouTube app I've found. There's a few steps involved but the guide is easy to follow (and it's open source so no funny business). No ads, no sponsor blocks, no bs, you can customize pretty much everything you see. It can be used for other apps too, just a FYI.

ReVanced

Guides and documentation
 
I have been watching You Tube through the app on my tv and the adds don't appear, but if I then go onto You Tube through my phone, that's when the ads appear. I find it easier to navigate the videos via laptop, but that won't be happening until I get an ad blocker installed on my phone. Also, not only were adds appearing via my phone, but sub titles were also coming up. Maybe I have activated subtitiles via my phone, I have very low tech skills and can barely send a text on my I Phone so will take me a while to try and install a block ad app, but I will persevere.
 
I'm hopeless with my phone. I've just got a fairly cheap, although it can do a lot more than I actually use it for, android phone because I use my laptop for everything I possibly can. I have a love/hate relationship with my phone. Mostly hate, lol. I should be able to use that adblocker that @Denman posted about on my laptop though.

I haven't got a smart TV, although I have been trying to work out if we could afford one. I used to have Sky which I cancelled for some months because neither Mum nor I were watching telly, so we were paying for something we weren't using. I've got Sky back but I chose a fancy new Sky box which seems to have turned our telly into a smart TV - according to the technician who installed it and showed me all these apps on it - so I guess I could watch YouTube on there, but I haven't even tried it yet. Even for recording or watching Sky On Demand. It scares me! 🤣🤣 So we're back to paying for something we're not using, lol. I have to give it a go though because I do want telly back!

I've been finding that a lot very recently too @Turnham, now that you mention it. Subtitles coming up on so many things. I was wondering too if I had activated them. I don't need them! I can understand English! lol

One comedian though that I watch a lot of videos of; they have pretty much always been subtitled. Glaswegian comedian Kevin Bridges, a favourite of mine. I can understand his English perfectly but it seems that a lot of people can't 🤣🤣

On one YouTube video I started to watch, an ad came up for something that was supposed to, er reinvigorate a man's sexual prowess using a 'natural' remedy. It started with a woman with a large knife slicing through a cucumber which I thought was rather a phallic-looking object to be taking a knife to, given the context of the ad. She was also squeezing or zesting a lemon for this 'remedy'. But it was the wording that was hilarious. There was something about how the man would be able to please his woman by going for 'hours and hours'. I mean, I'm not getting any these days, but who wants hours and hours? 🤣🤣

The wording was so funny that I let it play on to try and remember it but I couldn't so I clicked on the link and it took me straight to a video that was pornographic! I hate porn so of course I clicked off that smartly and cleared my search history and cookies! 😇

Oh well, real life beckons. I've just raced into the supermarket and I am so late getting Mum up she is going to be very pissed off with me. I get really stressed on the supermarket run because that's the only time I leave Mum. I went through the self-service checkout and told the very annoying voice that was telling me to do this and do that because I was a little bit slow, to 'fuck off' and to 'give me a fucking chance'. 🤣🤣
 
Oh what a great suggestion! I find myself watching more and more youtube, especially for old documentaries you can't find anywhere else and the every 20 minutes (or whatever) ads are so annoying
 
life *without* youtube is a life worth living; same for twitter, facebook and the rest. get outside and talk a walk.

advertising ruined radio, TV, cable, telephony, and definitely the internet.
 
MRNUTTY said:
life *without* youtube is a life worth living; same for twitter, facebook and the rest. get outside and talk a walk.

advertising ruined radio, TV, cable, telephony, and definitely the internet.
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I agree to an extent, a lot of people lives do revolve around tech, phones etc, but I am not in that category, however being able to have an hours respite watching a couple of videos whilst juggling many many issues, including caring for my terminally ill father isn't exactly excessive. I am out of the house 'walking' and caring for most of the day, I don't do Insta, twitter or any other forms of social media and it's only when I just want to detach for a while when I get home, that's when I manage to fit in watching a few videos to relax. If it was a tech pro I would more than likely know how to fix the ad issue myself. However lots of useful advice and tips from many on this thread so thanks to those ideas.
 
I've continued to see no ads on PC using Ublock Origin extension. Available for most browsers. Ublock devs continue to update filter lists nightly and continue to be able to block YT ads. YT continuing to change things almost daily though. Had one day I saw ads. Just had to refresh the filter list to the latest update. Poof, ads blocked again.

And if you have Android phone or tablet, Revanced mentioned by @Synergistic is the way to go!

Luckily haven't gotten that dreaded "disable your ad blocker or get banned" pop up yet.
 
Ugh, the youtube ads are horrendous. I especially hate the one that starts "gotta poop?" They used to make you watch one, now it's two, what next. Sometimes I like listening to some frequency music to relax, and then in comes a hideous ad. But it's a no-win situation for the ones with youtube channels, and I watch a lot of them. If there is no ad in one of their videos they get demonitized which is terrible for them and that video won't show up in suggestions for others.

The ones I'm really and truly hating are the full page pop-ups, happening with more and more frequency. Do those who create such intrusive ads really think someone is going to click and buy something they are hawking? Obviously, the pop-up blocker on Safari is useless. Thanks for the adblockultimate mention. Going to check that out right now.

Now if there was only one to block the ads when using the Youtube app.
 
I've used every single adblocker listed in the thread above and they all worked until just a few weeks ago when I started getting those "disable your adblocker or else" pop-ups from YouTube. For a short while I could just reload the page and the warning would disappear and the video would play without ads just as before. But a couple of weeks ago I got the dreaded "3-2-1 countdown" popup warning and after the third video now I can't watch YouTube at all with my Firefox browser. I've been locked out. Presumably if I log out I could still watch them with Firefox but only with ads.

To make it clear: UBlock Origin, Adblocker Ultimate, Adblock Plus, et. al., I have them all and none of them will get past YouTube anymore. As far as Ghostery, I've been using it for years but it doesn't block YouTube ads and it never has in the past. It was never intended to.

I can watch videos on Chrome while logged in but they run with ads and I don't have any sort of adblocker software installed on Chrome so I don't get locked out using that browser. So it looks like the days of watching YouTube ad-free are over for now. Someone will figure out a way to block the ads again but until then we just have to either stop watching or cope with the annoyance.

To be fair, YouTube/Google was never intended to be totally free. They are a business, and they have to turn the service they offer into revenue somehow or else they would not be able to function at all. I get it. But the ads still suck ass and are annoying beyond belief. If I can bypass or disable them I will. Here's hoping someone will come up with a new solution.
 
I have not found an adblocker that is fully functional for Youtube with the current changes, some seem to work randomly, most get the popup that prevents you from using Youtube...

What I have found works maybe 25-50% of the time is the Chrome extension Urban Youtube Blocker, it still allows many of the ads to play but about 25-50% of the time an ad will just blip for a second then disappear, and sometimes I can just refresh the page and the ads are skipped...

To be honest, I will be watching less and less Youtube until there is a working ad blocker, I find it ridiculous that I have watch upwards of 1 minute of ads for every 5 minutes of YouTube, and that is what I'm currently experiencing...

I just watched a 46 second how to video and YouTube ran two ads before the video even started, utterly ridiculous!
 
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