I access youtube via Mozilla Firefox, and use their adblocker. I haven’t seen an ad on 'tube in two years.
Dan
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.
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 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.
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.
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.)
I hate those things because they’re full of ads.
Oh my god! It’s full of Ads! – not Arthur C. Clarke
yeah well, step up and pay for the programming, money bags.
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.
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