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Block YouTube video ads

tdiaz said:
AdBlock Plus + Chrome .. and no ads. Period.
Kinda surprised it does not work for Safari.
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It does work on Safari...I haven't seen an ad in ages (unless I have turned off extensions for some reason)...
 
Sometimes I try and go bak to Safari but I always end up back on Chrome (just happened again today..).. Too many little things in Safari that just add up to annoyances I don't have with Chrome... I want to like it but it's reeeaaly hard.
 
Blocking ads on YouTube is against YouTube's terms of service and more importantly is harming to the content producers.
 
smithrh said:
I've never signed a contract with Google...
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Most services generally have an implied contract: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

By using or visiting the YouTube website or any YouTube products, software, data feeds, and services provided to you on, from, or through the YouTube website (collectively the "Service") you signify your agreement to (1) these terms and conditions (the "Terms of Service") ...
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smithrh said:
That's nice...

No contract, no consideration, no worries.
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From youtube.com/t/terms

By using or visiting the YouTube website or any YouTube products, software, data feeds, and services provided to you on, from, or through the YouTube website (collectively the "Service") you signify your agreement to (1) these terms and conditions (the "Terms of Service")...
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The terms aside, is it really worthing hurting the content producer? The ads are at most thirty-seconds, just sit through them.
 
No contract, no consideration, no problem.

Have all of you forgotten how YouTube placed reams and reams of videos without permission on YouTube in the early days?

They/Google hardly have the high ground here.
 
elgrecomac said:
I have and Adtrap box sitting between my NetGear 6300ac router and ISP which results in eliminating over 95% of ads including youtube ads. And since it is attached to my router which provides wifi to my house, all of my iOS devices are similarly ad-free.
It is not an inexpensive solution but it is software independent so I can use any browser I choose. I find it to be worth every penny.

http://www.getadtrap.com/
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Your netgear 6300 is dd-wrt capable. That also means it can run the various adblock scripts that are out there that use dnsmasq. It would have done the same job for free.

I use one on my Asus N66U using Tomato firmware
 
Rohirm said:
You can add these to the /etc/hosts file to block the youtube ads:

127.0.0.1 ads.youtube.com
127.0.0.1 s0.2mdn.net
127.0.0.1 s1.2mdn.net
127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net
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hey man this stopped working. do you have another work around?
 
Rohirm said:
You can add these to the /etc/hosts file to block the youtube ads:

127.0.0.1 ads.youtube.com
127.0.0.1 s0.2mdn.net
127.0.0.1 s1.2mdn.net
127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net
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First of all I wanted to say thank you very much for this invaluable tip!

ZacNicholson said:
hey man this stopped working. do you have another work around?
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This is working for me as of 22nd January.

I didn't use textedit tho, I used nano, so in terminal run this:

sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

Then just copy and paste the information above to block youtube ads.

When finished press ctrl x, select save and voilá!

Maybe fix permissions using disk utility?
 
After I used this method, I see no ads at all. But yesterday, suddenly I saw an ad before a video started play. Maybe YouTube changed something.
 
Blakeasd said:
From youtube.com/t/terms



The terms aside, is it really worthing hurting the content producer? The ads are at most thirty-seconds, just sit through them.
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By blocking ads, I'm not sure how I am hurting the person who uploads the funny cat videos I like to watch.

But feel free to sit through all those ads, and buy whatever you are told to. Keep staring down at your device and await further instructions from your corporate masters. That's a good little sheep.
 
theBostonian said:
First of all I wanted to say thank you very much for this invaluable tip!



This is working for me as of 22nd January.

I didn't use textedit tho, I used nano, so in terminal run this:

sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

Then just copy and paste the information above to block youtube ads.

When finished press ctrl x, select save and voilá!

Maybe fix permissions using disk utility?
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I edited the host file and pasted those lines at the bottom. Hasn't seemed to work
 
coldjeanzzz said:
I edited the host file and pasted those lines at the bottom. Hasn't seemed to work
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Hmm, on Safari or Chrome?

I'm using Chromium, version 33.0.1712.0 (235555)

The popup ads (where there's a yellow line in the video bar) no longer appear but the video ads before the proper video occasionally appear.
 
theBostonian said:
Hmm, on Safari or Chrome?

I'm using Chromium, version 33.0.1712.0 (235555)

The popup ads (where there's a yellow line in the video bar) no longer appear but the video ads before the proper video occasionally appear.
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Safari

It might be possible Youtube has changed something because nothing seems to be blocking their in video ads anymore on Safari (not ad block, youtube options, youtube center)
 
Thunderbird said:
By blocking ads, I'm not sure how I am hurting the person who uploads the funny cat videos I like to watch.

But feel free to sit through all those ads, and buy whatever you are told to. Keep staring down at your device and await further instructions from your corporate masters. That's a good little sheep.
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Many people make a living from YouTube. Their salary is generated from ad revenue. I don't care for Google or any other major corporation for that matter. The fact remains though that I don't want to hurt a small independent entity because I'm too impatient to sit through an ad that is at the most 30s. To deny this revenue source would prohibit small YouTubers to remain in business. There is a cost associated with making videos.

Completely blocking sponsored advertising would be a detriment not only to the content creators and the sponsors themselves.

Don't be so impatient -- an ad is 30s at most.
 
click to flash plugin

i just use the click to flash plugin and it works fine since html5 doesnt play the ads
 
Blakeasd said:
Many people make a living from YouTube. Their salary is generated from ad revenue. I don't care for Google or any other major corporation for that matter. The fact remains though that I don't want to hurt a small independent entity because I'm too impatient to sit through an ad that is at the most 30s. To deny this revenue source would prohibit small YouTubers to remain in business. There is a cost associated with making videos.

Completely blocking sponsored advertising would be a detriment not only to the content creators and the sponsors themselves.

Don't be so impatient -- an ad is 30s at most.
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Ads are already paid for. Blocking them from my sight does not deprive anyone of any money. You do realize that Youtube used to be ad free, right?

You are confused.
 
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