Content producers weren't paid back when YouTube was ad free. Yes, the ads are paid for, but the producers -- the people who spend time making videos for you -- aren't paid if you don't see the ads. YouTubers' salaries are contingent on advertisements. Read up about it... You're confused.
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Content producers weren't paid back when YouTube was ad free. Yes, the ads are paid for, but the producers -- the people who spend time making videos for you -- aren't paid if you don't see the ads. YouTubers' salaries are contingent on advertisements. Read up about it... You're confused.
This is completely utterly false. You have no idea how youtube ads or adblockers work.
Content producers only get paid if and when someone clicks on the ad, not just by watching it. Youtube cannot detect if someone is using adblocker since adblocker only removes the element that is linked to the ad.
Even if your nonsense were true, it's not up to me to support content producers against my will. If people don't want ads on youtube, then that is their right. Let the market decide what they want to watch.
If you want to support content producers then by all means click on their ads, but don't come on here and start nagging people into having to sit through mindnumbing ads when they don't want to with some guilt-tripping excuse based on falsehoods.
Youtube is not going to die because people have adblockers.
As of today ads are creeping back in. seems they changed the URL's of there ad servers. Anyone have an updated list please (and know where the original list came from? very hard to find on google).
Youtube ad-blocking via hosts file still works for me... I viewed 20+ videos on youtube today and not a single banner or anything came up. I think the ad servers are different for different countries, and maybe that's why it works for somebody, while not for others.
@DJTaurus: you need to open the file with root privilege.
@DJTaurus: you need to open the file with root privilege.
Two weeks ago I came across this plugin called Youtube Options (https://spoi.com/software/yto/). Since I installed it, its youtube adblock functionality has been flawless. I use a general adblocker for webpage ads and use Youtube Options as well (to block youtube video adds. I believe it works with Chrome Safari and Opera.
Rudolph II
Rudolph II
Block youtube ads on safari.
Adblock doesn't block youtube ads, Adblock plus neither, and editing the hosts files does nothing, having used safari since 2003 i won't give it up. Any ideas on how to block youtube ads?
Adblock doesn't block youtube ads, Adblock plus neither, and editing the hosts files does nothing, having used safari since 2003 i won't give it up. Any ideas on how to block youtube ads?
I use the ClickToPlugin extension. It stops plug ins, mainly flash, from loading automatically and when possible it exchanges the player to safaris native html5 video player. Random flash adds on website dont load in either. Click the gray screen saying html5, or flash or whatever else to let it load in. For youtube it will change the youtube player automatically because its in included in the html5 converstion skripts list in the settings of click to plugin. Make sure you add "www.youtube.com/watch" (without " marks) into the autoplay these sites in the media player tab of the clicktoplugin settings so that you dont have to click the video every time.
A nice side effect of using this plugin is that youtube adds no longer load. Just goes straight to the video
html5 also uses a million times less CPU power, so you can watch videos for much longer.
Oh and I personally like the html5 player much more then youtubes, you can jump around in a video however you like and it wont have to reload.
The quality settings (resolution) from each video can be changed by hovering your mouse over the lop left corner of the screen. This cant be done when you are in fullscreen though.
You can also send the video to your apple tv if you have one.
A nice side effect of using this plugin is that youtube adds no longer load. Just goes straight to the video
html5 also uses a million times less CPU power, so you can watch videos for much longer. Oh and I personally like the html5 player much more then youtubes, you can jump around in a video however you like and it wont have to reload
. The quality settings (resolution) from each video can be changed by hovering your mouse over the lop left corner of the screen. This cant be done when you are in fullscreen though.
You can also send the video to your apple tv if you have one.
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I use the ClickToPlugin extension. It stops plug ins, mainly flash, from loading automatically and when possible it exchanges the player to safaris native html5 video player. Random flash adds on website dont load in either. Click the gray screen saying html5, or flash or whatever else to let it load in. For youtube it will change the youtube player automatically because its in included in the html5 converstion skripts list in the settings of click to plugin. Make sure you add "www.youtube.com/watch" (without " marks) into the autoplay these sites in the media player tab of the clicktoplugin settings so that you dont have to click the video every time.
A nice side effect of using this plugin is that youtube adds no longer load. Just goes straight to the video
Oh and I personally like the html5 player much more then youtubes, you can jump around in a video however you like and it wont have to reload
The quality settings (resolution) from each video can be changed by hovering your mouse over the lop left corner of the screen. This cant be done when you are in fullscreen though.
You can also send the video to your apple tv if you have one.
These are my problems with using the HTML5 player
1) Cannot click on youtube annotations
2) Video history is no longer recorded
3) If you autoplay for youtube instead of clicking it each time then when you browse message boards with embedded youtube videos they will all start playing at once. Don't know how to stop this behaviour
1) yes true I absolutely hated that. Got used to it so i forgot about that.
2) Personally, never used the video history so that doesnt bother me
3) I have no idea what the message boards are. But for me only when I am on the /watch link will the video start loading. On all other youtube pages where there are videos none load.
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Just watch the ads. If you want content to watch on youtube, the producers of that content need to get paid. You're talking about depriving some of these people their sole means of income.
Adblock plus with Firefox, and no adds here. What is wrong with using a different browser for YouTube?