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level of Advertising is getting Ridiculous
jonovid:
Just try watching anything popular with the general public on youtube! nowadays.
example- A Burning CANDLE in Epoxy Resin post
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/a-burning-candle-in-epoxy-resin/
popular youtube video Circuit boards with lights in epoxy in a table 5,106,399 views
you get hit with waves of advertising mixed in with the video it self.
this is getting ridiculous. advertising approaching the levels as free-to-air TV channels
anyone else experiencing similar things? >:D no links to youtube needed
by anything not so popular I am saying, anything that is hard core technical or specialist geeky.
as I like to see most of the time. :-+
Halcyon:
This is why I block all ads, including Youtube pre-roll video ads. I haven't watched an ad on Youtube for years. I use Adblock Plus in combination with the Ghostery browser plugin. It's extremely effective.
Alternatively, can view Dave's videos on LBRY without ads at all.
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: blueskull on June 27, 2020, 02:51:52 am ---You can pre-open pages to mitigate, but they then implemented lost-focus detection and will replay ADs after a certain period of time if the page is not in focus.
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Trivial to spoof if there's a demand for it.
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: blueskull on June 27, 2020, 02:51:52 am ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on June 27, 2020, 02:45:30 am ---It's extremely effective.
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For now. Until YT decides to block AD blockers.
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There is always that risk whenever you circumvent something, but as I said, this combination has worked for me for several years and it has never not worked. I doubt Google would bother putting too much time and effort trying to prevent a relatively small number of users from blocking their ads. It's just not worth it. If they can get 90% of users to display their ads, that's good enough. They won't ever prevent users who use ad blockers from using their services either, it would be a suicide mission, particularly as most modern browsers have built-in ad blocking.
This method doesn't just block the pre-roll ads either, it prevents the ads which are interspersed within the videos as well.
Rerouter:
Do not use the "youtube app", on any mobile device.
On the website, I play a 3 hour video with no included ads, and it just plays this is with no ad blocker
On the app, it loads up 2 adds at the start. and includes and extra one every 15 minutes,
I also suspect the creator is not seeing that ad revenue as the specific creator I was watching does not have ads set on any of his videos
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