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A Novel Approach to Youtube Ads (9to5google.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some people on HN say that creating ad blockers for YouTube is a waste of time. Google's not going to remove in-video ads either way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's strange. You'd think that because Google isn't going to remove in-video ads, that would be the sole purpose of creating ad blockers, to remove them. Not for the purpose of making Google remove them from their business model altogether lol. That's clearly not going to happen.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was originally made to let Google do that I believe, telling the company that it can't show us in-video ads. But it didn't happen. That's why this endless cycle exists. IN MY OPINION, buying YouTube Premium instead of waiting for another ad-workaround (if ublock origin method stopped working ) saves you a lot of time (stop using YouTube in the first place would be better though).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very surprising to hear this, I would never think that would be a viable endeavor to begin with. But fair enough. Honorable of them!

From my personal perspective though, I'm spending zero time in any effort towards blocking ads. Installed uBlock years ago and I haven't done anything since. 😌 They've done all the effort for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s because people behind uBlock do that on behalf of you. For free. They’re not even accepting donations.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-donations%3F

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly what I mean. I'm very grateful.

Very reasonable reasons, by the way.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I use ublock origin. Haven't had any serious problems so far. I don't think Google will be successful for any long period of time with their anti-adblock vendetta because people live to ruin them.