# Fuck YouTube's ads **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941 "2020-12-13T04:08:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/41 "2020-12-23T22:38:11Z")
I access youtube via Mozilla Firefox, and use their adblocker. I haven’t seen an ad on 'tube in two years. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/42 "2020-12-24T21:26:22Z")
I’ve got Mozilla Firefox but apparently I don’t have my AdBlocker properly set. I’ll have to check the settings. Also, won’t do jack for me on my TV. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/43 "2020-12-25T14:50:11Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > I hope the free but ads business model dies, taking google and facebook with it, and then something else comes along to replace it. Why do you hate radio? And broadcast TV? The ‘free, but ads’ model is what built the electronic communications net from 1925-1980. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/44 "2020-12-25T15:43:07Z")
I hate the ads but I kinda agree with JT’s point: it’s an economic model that provides a free product. The alternative is no product at all or being forced to pay a subscription fee. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/45 "2020-12-25T16:57:14Z")
Upped my AdBlock on Firefox and it works like a charm. Although I did allow ads through for my local paper, since that’s one of the way they stay in business. But that’s by MY choice. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/46 "2020-12-25T17:01:31Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I hate the ads but I kinda agree with JT’s point: it’s an economic model that provides a free product. The alternative is no product at all or being forced to pay a subscription fee. Heh. “Free product.” Like such a thing exists. The customers are the people doing the paying (i.e., the advertisers). The product is the audience (i.e., YOU). (Oh right. AND me.) ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/47 "2020-12-25T17:34:56Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Why do you hate radio? And broadcast TV? The ‘free, but ads’ model is what built the electronic communications net from 1925-1980. I hate those things because they’re full of ads. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/48 "2020-12-25T20:36:41Z")
Oh my god! It’s full of Ads! – not Arthur C. Clarke ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/49 "2020-12-26T02:50:52Z")
yeah well, step up and pay for the programming, money bags. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/50 "2020-12-26T07:39:03Z")
You mean I can send a check in to my local iHeartMedia radio station, and then I won’t get ads anymore? Cool, if I cancel Spotify I’ll do that. I sent money to NPR, but they still have ads (by any other name), so now I just listen to podcasts when I want talk. I pay for PBS, and they don’t have ads during shows, except a few times a year. I pay for Netflix and Disney+ and they don’t have ads. Amazon has pre-roll ads, but they’re completely skipable. I never really thought about it before, but it’s funny, I’m not paying to remove ads, I’m paying for things that don’t have ads in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941/51 "2020-12-26T08:07:34Z")
There is a weird trick: click the little cross the right top edge of the window where the video is playing. It is the only thing google cares about. You complaining on some forum where google is serving different ads— lol [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-youtubes-ads/927941.md?page=2)