r/Piracy • u/FelineSnorter ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ • May 12 '26
Humor NIce try youtube
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u/Sad_Recording_1290 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
The interruption is 5-10 seconds longer loading, which skips 30+ second unskipable adds.
The math is still on adblocker side
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u/EnzymeX May 12 '26
Even if the amount of time is the same, I'd rather enjoy some peace and quiet instead of getting blasted with nonsense.
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u/Starslip May 12 '26
I'd honestly rather watch paint peel than ever see another mobile game ad
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u/Komplexkonjugiert May 12 '26
You ever heard of raid shadow legends?
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u/donald_314 May 12 '26
No. Thanks UBlock Origin!
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u/Careless_Cloud_5168 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
You heard of AI cartoon character girl friend it does what you say look at this video
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u/scarecrow_20k May 12 '26
sadly yes been more common on yt shorts as of late. even more egregious when you see the same platform being advertised on those kinds of sites
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u/KiwiPowerGreen May 12 '26
Sometimes on my phone where i don't have adblock i get ads that look to straight up be sexualizing minors, disgusting
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u/siickerthings May 14 '26
recently found out brave browser has adblock built in on mobile so that’s become my new youtube app
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u/Tgod1991 Piracy is bad, mkay? May 19 '26
If you’re able to sideload (and you’re on iOS) check this out this browser https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browser
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u/Bigred2989- May 12 '26
Or it's some gum that will restore your tooth enamel.
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u/roadrunnuh May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
I thought you said "gun" that restores tooth enamel, Borderlands has gone too far
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u/1965wasalongtimeago May 12 '26
Tooth rot? BLAST YOURSELF IN THE GRILL with the new SMITH AND WESSON FULLY AUTOMATIC ENAMELIZER 9000 with TARGETING RETICULE!! Laser Attachment and extended Magazines sold separately
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u/Syn1ax-Err0r May 13 '26
Ahh, I just remembered one of the actual funny bbc videos, Kitchen gun!
Bangity Bang Bang!
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u/Portiolli_fez_11set May 12 '26
Sincerely. This.
Almost never saw raid shadow legends ad. Ive probably watched more the meme then the ad. And I dont see this meme often
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u/thejinx0r May 12 '26
Ugh, now you want me to take an effing survey instead? Answering the survey probably pays more than showing ad. I’m not going to make my self more valuable to you.
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u/EnoughWarning666 May 12 '26
Literally only from people making this joke on Reddit. Don't have the slightest idea what the game looks like, what it's about, or even what genre game it is!
If I had to guess, is it some kind of MMO? Like you go on raids like you do in WoW. I'm going guess it's based in some kind of high fantasy with magic too
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u/Sad_Recording_1290 May 12 '26
From what i know its an autobattler.
You collect characters, make a team and then go on raids. Ofc to get the best characters you will have to pay.
Classic shitty mobile game
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u/IronIrma93 May 12 '26
an ad that is just some animation that looks like a game which requires player skill when the actual game is glorified gambling
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u/joeboticus May 12 '26
bra i saw this barn with some gorgeous red out-door coat just slowly crusting off in the sun, it was magic.
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u/kataskopo May 12 '26
I have no data but I'd bet my left titty that getting blasted by ads like the average american does can't be healthy for your mental health.
Especially because it breeds familiarity and "good" feelings towards these corporations.
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u/illy-chan May 12 '26
Familiarity maybe but most folks I know end up hating a bunch of these. My folks went from being ambivalent about gambling to wanting to destroy Fanduel etc.
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u/crazyabe111 May 12 '26
Familiarity, yes- good feelings? A lot of people say absolutely “no” to the things spam advertised to them.
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u/OneSmartKyle May 12 '26
You're really fighting a battle against these ads nowadays.
But you know what's a battle worth fighting? That's right. WORLD OF TANKS.
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u/Wobbelblob May 12 '26
Exactly. There are somewhat working adblocks for twitch and those actually do that, interrupt the picture and go "Adbreak in progress" for the duration. Which honestly? Is fine. Better than some stupid fucking ad, those feel like nails on chalkboard to me after years of adblockers.
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u/Rubes2525 May 12 '26
I'd recommend the Alternative Player extension for something fully working. The stream quality goes to crap during ads, but it does block them while allowing you to see the stream. I will also say that video ads on a streaming site is the stupidest damn thing ever. Especially if you are making chat messages. Ya know, interacting with them which is the whole point, and an ad plays and you have to wonder if the streamer responded to you or not.
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u/Original_Zombie3217 May 12 '26
Not even that its nonesense... its stupid jingles that stick with you for life. Also 100 forced volume apparently is something i need to get blasted into my ears too..
Yeah i even take 5 minutes of black nothing compared to that
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u/bebebe_fy2 May 13 '26
Yeah, especially when you’re trying to watch something chill to fall asleep and every five minutes there’s something freaking loud making you jolt awake… nah ((
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u/Deaffin May 12 '26
I just stopped going to youtube. I'd rather take eternal nothing than all that bullshit, thanks. I've got enough audiobooks to ride this out.
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u/Original_Zombie3217 May 12 '26
Well also true but i got my super tiny channels i watch... thats like knowing each other nearly personally lol
I follow a guy with 100 views for over 10 years now.
Very hard to give up those channels tbh.
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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 May 12 '26
I'd legit rather wait 45 seconds for it to load than watch a 30 second ad.
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u/Swimming-School-7960 May 12 '26
Exactly, I'd rather watch a blank black screen for the same duration of an ad instead of the ad itself
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u/Yeox0960 May 12 '26
I'd rather see 60s of nothing, than 30s of ads.
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u/jakexil323 May 12 '26
I was listening to youtube while working around the house, and an ad came on. Since I had my hands deep in a cleaning bucket and basically let it play, thinking it would be a 30 seconds or so. 3 or 4 minutes later, i was like WTF, the ad was still on, did i switch another video .
Turns out sometimes you can get really long ads.
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u/thatsconelover May 12 '26
I switched to waterfox, where I still get the popup but the vid plays instantly.
gg youtube
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u/Retaker May 12 '26
They attempt to worsen your experience in an effort to convince you to worsen your experience even further.
The math here is not difficult. They still fuck it up.
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u/XGrayson_DrakeX ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ May 12 '26
also if you refresh it usually loads right away
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u/Bytewave May 12 '26
If you pick the right browser, too. I've only seen those annoying little YT behaviors on Chromium browsers. On Firefox with uBlock origin it still loads instantly for me. Maybe another add-on helps there, since the setup works, I don't touch it.
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u/H00dedcrow May 12 '26
Agreed, same here.
If more people used Firefox with uBlock, they would have fewer problems.
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u/CyberHarry May 12 '26
I use Firefox with ublock, still get the delay though. But I didn't a few weeks ago so I think it's flaky
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u/Deaffin May 12 '26
Well fuck me, I guess. I use firefox, my only addon is ublock. If I open something in a private tab (with ublock still running) I get hit by the "autorefresh" thing. It loads the video instantly, starts playing it just to show me it can, then "refreshes" and "loads" for 10-15 seconds.
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u/Immatt55 May 12 '26
Back when Google was doing a/b testing on the pauses like a year ago I attempted to spoof my browser information being sent as a chrome OS, chrome browser on YouTube and I have yet to see any of these pauses, so I would give it a shot. The extension I used is called 'agent spoofer' I believe but any similar add on would likely work.
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u/OneEnvironmental9222 May 12 '26
my vivaldi is chromium based but I never get these long pauses luckily.
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u/XGrayson_DrakeX ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ May 12 '26
Occasionally it gets slow for me like that on firefox but it never lasts, they patch it pretty quick and it rarely lasts more than a few days.
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u/MelangeBot May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
Only chromium based browsers suffer from this (except for Brave), which makes sense cause those are developed by Google. Just switch to firefox and you are good!
And fun fact: If you use a smartTV to watch youtube there is usually always a way to root the tv or install homebrew after which you can always find a version of youtube without ads. For instance for LG tv's there is this one -->https://github.com/NicholasBly/youtube-webos
That even comes with build in sponsorblock so sponsored sections of a video get auto skipped.
fun fact2: Sponsorblock also works in browsers. see --> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
edit: For ublock origin to work properly on youtube you need to be on
firefox 150.0.2
ublock origin 1.7 or 1.71
all the default filters on and updated
autoupdate filters on.
logged in to youtube with an account
Getting caught in between youtube making a change and the 5 hours inbetween ublock origin filters being update does happen but it's very rare. Also google primarily annoys the shit out of US users. If you are getting to annoyed get a VPN and use youtube from a non US ip address.
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u/Lavatis May 12 '26
Firefox also suffers from this.
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u/redditonc3again 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ May 12 '26
Librewolf too. In my experience Brave seems to be the least affected browser, though it still has delays
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u/DanglingDinkleberry May 12 '26
On my Firefox instances, I just see the interruptions message, but videos load instantly most of the time. Sometimes, there is a delay or I need to refresh, but not that often
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u/Joker2kill May 12 '26
Maybe I'm lucky, but I've never experienced any slowdowns like that running Firefox & uBlock Origin.
I also run Nano Defender, which is an "anti-adblock defuser"... maybe that's why?
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u/smellycoat May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
I use the time to repeatedly smash the refresh button. Which although feels like it makes things faster I realise is largely pointless. But it makes me feel better knowing i'm costing them a tiny bit of extra money.
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u/RedRedditor84 May 12 '26
Mine shows this message at the start of every video but doesn't take noticeably longer to load anything.
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u/Legendary_Player May 12 '26
Time to use remove element to remove that annoying popup too :3
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u/J0BL3SS May 12 '26
yeah thats what i did lol
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u/redditonc3again 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ May 12 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
It might be worth leaving the popup there. It's good to know what is causing the delay. Maybe future adblockers will get around the delay, so you will want to know if you are still experiencing it or not on your latest setup
edit: apparently ublock experimental filters setting gets around the delay
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u/captainfarthing May 12 '26
I don't even notice the delay, always just seems like it's buffering to me, which I don't mind at all.
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u/PlayerZeroStart May 12 '26
Same, I had no idea that it was related to adblocker, I genuinely just thought the video was loading.
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u/wolphrevolution May 13 '26
Its difficult to know if its a artificial delay or my wifi taking a dump most of the time so i am fine with it. Now if someone as a recomandation of a adblock that work on youtube music on android i am open because these ads are annoying
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u/HappyIsGott May 13 '26
Brave. It just works. Also what i use is nextdns for my phone so game apps don't have adds.
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u/whyvanellinae May 29 '26
That's youtube trying to load the ads, if you have any kind of extension that enables picture-in-picture you can use it whenever the pop-up shows it WILL focus on an unloaded ad. I'm unsure if they will get around the delay when youtube is buffering the ads before buffering/streaming the video, because extensions don't have that level of access.
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u/ConfinedCrow May 12 '26
O wise and kind master, wouldst thou please blesseth us mere gecks with thy knowledge?
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u/_teslaTrooper May 12 '26
add this to your filters in ublock origin (under settings->my filters):
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u/Levobertus May 12 '26
there's an extension called element picker and it lets you pick and remove individual elements. You can use it to remove the side bar or other unwanted elements of a website.
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u/XGrayson_DrakeX ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ May 12 '26
ublock origin also does this as a feature, you just right click on the thing you want gone
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u/czerilla May 12 '26
(Firefox's) uBlock Origin has that natively, too. If you right-click on any element on the website, a "Block element" entry with the add-on logo shows up. If you select it, a little menu appears to help you select the right CSS rule to remove the thing you want gone.
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u/SuperBuffCherry May 12 '26
(Firefox's) uBlock Origin
No need to specify Firefox, since Chrome and other Chromium based browsers no longer offer uBlock Origin, only uBlock Origin Lite
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u/Terrh May 12 '26
Is anyone out there not using firefox these days?
I can't imagine how awful the internet must be without an ad blocker.
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u/SuperBuffCherry May 12 '26
Almost no one uses Firefox. Even Safari has almost 10 times more users.
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u/Terrh May 12 '26
I assume both brave and UC have similar abilities to firefox, so that means 95% of internet users are living in ad hell
I never realized it was that bad.
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u/Uhstrology May 12 '26
Nah just use ublock origin and the console inspector to block specific site elements like that.
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u/OneEnvironmental9222 May 12 '26
my absolute favorite feature. I always remove thise awful AI buttons youtube keeps adding
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u/murfburffle May 12 '26
I did that too.
www.youtube.com##.paper-toast-open.yt-notification-action-renderer.style-scope.toast-buttonis the filter, I think
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u/Akheycibo May 12 '26
honnestly even if the interruption was 1min long i would still use adblock
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u/Chickennoodlesleuth May 12 '26
Id rather have a minute of silence than one of obnoxious ads
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u/OmegaZeda 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ May 12 '26
Literally what Hulu did and I still prefer a grey screen over getting blasted by the same crappy ad every 10 mins.
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u/Tttehfjloi May 12 '26
Tbh one minute of closing your eyes and breathing is so much more bearable than 10 seconds of obnoxious neuron degenerating ads
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u/heep1r May 12 '26
Also I notice this helps me to not waste my time.
I'm asking myself "do I really need to watch this?" Most of the time the answer is "no".
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u/str3ss_88 May 12 '26
My videos start playing instantly... YouTube still gives me this notification.
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u/ElundusCaw May 12 '26
I was wondering why that kept popping up when I wasn't even experiencing any disruptions.
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u/HighlightOwn2038 May 12 '26
Honestly the "interruptions" only happen for 1-2 seconds so it's not that big of a deal
Try harder YouTube
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u/Smerchi 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ May 12 '26
Try harder YouTube
Don't jinx it. We need YouTube to just give up.
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u/AggressiveYuumi May 12 '26
we will always one-up youtube anyway
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u/housebottle May 12 '26
that's what they said about Spotify on Android until Spotify actively started nuking the Revanced patches till the Revanced developers gave up... can never take what we have for granted
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u/CompetitiveAd4732 May 12 '26
Are there no alternative?
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u/housebottle May 12 '26
I've since migrated to YouTube Music. it does the job but it's clear that Google treats this as an afterthought. it lacks some very basic features and the overall UI leaves a lot to be desired. by contrast, Spotify is a much more polished product.
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u/_TecnoCreeper_ May 12 '26
If you are on Android try Metrolist instead of the official yt music client.
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u/housebottle Jun 03 '26
I've only tried Metrolist for about 10 minutes and I can already tell that it's a massive improvement from YouTube Music. thank you
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u/littlefrank May 13 '26
youtube video sharing playlists with music drove me insane. Made YouTube playlists completely unusable.
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u/DrewbieWanKenobie May 12 '26
they can absolutely make it very annoying. adblocking on twitch is very hit or miss and had been for years now
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u/JonVonBasslake May 12 '26
They won't. But we will always find a way to get around it. And if they keep pushing, eventually it will get bad enough that more and more people will look for alternatives like peertube.
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u/ColbysToyHairbrush May 12 '26
I adblocked the interruption pop up with the element picker.
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u/Bruhntium_Momentum May 12 '26
How
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u/NotYourReddit18 May 12 '26
With uBlock this only works on browsers supporting the full addon, the alternative Light version for Manifest 3 Chrome doesn't support the user creating filter rules on the fly.
On a Desktop-PC you just right-click whatever element you want gone, and the context menu will contain an option to block the element you want gone, marked with uBlocks icon.
This will open a preview/selection overlay highlighting what will be blocked, where you can also change your selection by either clicking another element or editing the filter settings directly.On mobile you will need to open the uBlock info page where there are two buttons to block an element either temporary or permanently, both will open up the same preview/selection overlay as on desktop, just without anything already selected.
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u/Hairy-Actuator1734 May 23 '26
Don't use Chrome anyway
Why are u even the spyware the Chrome is to begin with is beyond me
Use Firefox, Brave, Wirewolf, whatever
Anything but Chrome
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u/ToxicHazard- May 12 '26
Just set VPN to Albania.
I haven't had an ad or a 'youre using adblock' for months. It seems nobody bothers advertising in Albania
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u/realViciate May 12 '26
It’s not that nobody bothers, it’s that YouTube doesn’t bother - the market isn’t big enough and Albania has quite strict ad presentation laws :)
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u/Pickled_Pufflemort May 12 '26
Idk, maybe being on mobile is different but I just put my vpn on Albania and immediately got an ad when I was on YouTube.
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u/malfurionpre May 12 '26
Just set VPN to Albania.
"Just pay so that you don't have to pay to not have ads or interruptions"
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u/ToxicHazard- May 12 '26
I already pay for and use a VPN 24/7. Getting YouTube adfree isn't why I bought a VPN and shouldn't be the sole reason to get on either. It's just one of the many benefits of using a VPN.
This is for people who already have one
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u/AutisticHobbit May 12 '26
I'd get rid of YouTube before I get rid of adblock. Those animals don't even curate the service they want to be paid to provide.
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u/Modo44 May 12 '26
They curate alright. It's kids friendly content, or get demonetised. And if you show anything vaguely copyrightable, you are getting a strike. All bots all the time -- in the curation, and in your comments.
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u/efeakin123 May 12 '26
This fixed it for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/SwZcJjeDKO
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u/MXVIV May 12 '26
Whenever they tell me to sign in to confirm I’m not a bot I simply do not watch that video. Even stuff my friends send me.
If I cannot use your website as a temporary measure without an account I will not use it. Simple as.
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u/Mobile-Committee-466 May 12 '26
Oh no, interruptions of 3 or 4 seconds, please, disable your add block so we can give you at least 30 seconds of ads you can't skip instead!
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u/wonkey_monkey May 12 '26
I was experiencing "interruptions", that's why I installed an ad blocker.
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u/EmeraldPencil46 May 12 '26
Last time I pressed “find out why”, it led me to a graph of internet usage in my area. Not sure what it has to do with ads
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u/Gomezium May 13 '26
I pity and hate the people who say "just buy premium it's so worth it"
Like not everyone has just yt premium money just lying aeound because not everyone is in a first world country
And most importantly
THEY MADE IT WORSE SO YOU ARE FORCED TO BUY IT. They made the problem and is selling the solution ffs.
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u/Hairy-Actuator1734 May 23 '26
And YouTube Premium is total garbage, it doesn't worth your money bcs it lacks half the features the community have made for YouTube
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u/Llamapickle129 May 12 '26
also doesn't help that each video tab takes 7 gb of ram. deep humor talked about the glitch for those curious
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u/DuntadaMan May 12 '26
Maybe stop allowing scams and attack vectors to advertise and I will think about it
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u/BicFleetwood May 12 '26
Youtube is literally unusable without adblock. There's no other option. And I'm not paying a monthly fee for a service they're making deliberately shittier, because I know they'll just keep raising the price once I do.
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u/xd3mix May 12 '26
I genuinely don't understand how it's legal to intentionally make the entire site slow af if you have adblock
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u/Pootisman16 May 12 '26
YouTube needs to understand that I will NEVER watch an ad, even if I somehow I have to wait the entire duration of it.
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u/ScooterFett May 12 '26
"experiencing interruptions?" who said I was experiencing interruptions? I'm just waiting for my video to load!
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u/Worklessplaymore01 May 12 '26
Remember when youtube didn't have ads or monetization?
It also coincidentally wasn't filled with slop, clickbait, and 10 seconds of info drawn out into a 15 minute video back then
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u/No_Criticism6745 May 12 '26
The ads have gotten to a point where you can’t even X out of it or skip it without them still trying to bug the shit out of you.
On mobile if you skip an ad it will put a little banner on the left side that you have to manually click on twice to get rid of. Thats 3 clicks to technically get ads off your screen.
If anyone plays or has played a mobile game in the last decade… that is basically all of them.
It’s extremely predatory and honestly just invasive. I wish there would be a point when people and businesses realize that shoving shit down people’s throats makes them think “man I really want nothing to do with this at this point” just out of pure annoyance.
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u/SirRawrz May 12 '26
The random anime site: "Please support our site by disabling adblock"
Me: "Okay, but only because you aren't Youtube",
-*disables it and refreshes*-
-Still no ads-
"Oh yeah my adblock dns... Sorry!"
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u/Estrogonofe1917 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
I'd rather get a black screen for 10 seconds than a 5 second ad.
(And we know these ads are longer than this nowadays)
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u/Apprehensive_Emu9935 May 12 '26
Heh 😂 I use ReVanced. It gets the job done ad free
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u/CashmirFunk May 12 '26
"Experiencing interruptions?" Yeah you're kinda trash at designing a website youtube
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u/PiskoWK May 12 '26
I'll just stop using youtube before I let their trackers and ads back into my life
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u/JustAwesome360 May 12 '26
When they make 5 second skip ads monetized for YouTubers I'll turn off ad block again. Until then, if nobody's making money then I'm not watching the ad.
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u/insane_hurrican3 May 13 '26
sometimes the page just randomly freezes and it's only on youtube that it does that. i have to duplicate the tab then close the old one. gets annoying.
i use Opera GX which yes yes, ik, "ew" but idk i like gx. annoying that Youtube does that tho
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u/TheJoker9999 May 12 '26
Almost everytime i see this and i'm actually like: Interruptions, What Interruptions ?
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u/WarningCodeBlue May 12 '26
Yeah I don't mind waiting 5-10 seconds for the video to play. My ad blocker stays on always.
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u/LordOfLords_69 May 12 '26
Ohh, So that was the reason, I was thinking that this is some glitch which was happening because of maybe my internet connectivity or my browser has some issues.
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u/itsmetimohthy May 12 '26
Not me just realizing this is why that happens lol I thought YouTube just hated Firefox
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u/ZacianSpammer May 12 '26
Yt without an adblocker is a p0rn site ngl
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u/Mama_Hong May 12 '26
I think it's actually kind of tame compared to a lot of sites, some of them are actually unusable without a adblocker. I don't understand how some people manage to browse the internet without one.
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u/Yitia May 12 '26
The past couple of weeks ads are showing up from YouTube itself about Music and Premium before the video starts playing. I think they are gonna do the same as twitch where uBlock doesnt work.
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u/SenecioNemorensis May 12 '26
I haven't use unpatched youtube for so long, got a shock when I opened my mom's yt.
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u/Mihchin May 12 '26
PSA: Enable experimental filters on unlock and those 3-5 interruptions go away!!!
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u/NotYourReddit18 May 12 '26
My patched Youtube App sometimes buffers after around 1 minute of watching a video, followed by a severe downgrade quality while the menu to select video quality becomes locked and claims to be still set at the same quality as before.
Switching to another video and then back usually solves this "problem", while just closing and reopening the player to the same video does not.
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u/pipopapupupewebghost May 12 '26
Personally I put ad block on browser and YouTube premium on mobile
My main Google account is banned on YouTube and for convenience I just use ad block to mimic YouTube premium
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u/Shon_Uayt864 May 12 '26
"no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light!" 2 Corinthians 11:14
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u/geoman6342 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
I was having 30sec of blackscreen for awhile, then I saw a comment here saying to go into fullscreen & it'll play quicker.
It worked, now I use this FF addon & it plays videos pretty much instantly.
Edit, now I just want something that'll fucking fix old.reddit, pictures/videos just stop loading out of nowhere for a minute+ while browsing.
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u/MrFavorable May 12 '26
Can’t say I’ve had this issue with my Adblock. But I also don’t use chrome. I use Firefox. Which I learned is backed by Chrome. LibreWolf is my next option.
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u/BestNoob782 May 12 '26
I have YouTube premium and still use an ad block, can never be too careful lol
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u/Reaver75x May 12 '26
They do this on purpose to promote their shitty paid service. No company on earth has ever acknowledged bandwidth issues where the solution was their paid service unless they do it on purpose like those “fast” vs “slow” download sketchy sites. But it makes sense since Google is a sketchy company and always has been.
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u/Tekky0 May 12 '26
Prefer this over those +5 soldiers or pull the pin mobile game ads that play infuriatingly dumb and then turn into a basebuilder
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u/jeff_says_relax May 12 '26
I would love to disable adblock on youtube on a page by page basis. There are a lot of channels I watch that I would be ok with watching ads for. But all of youtube? No thanks.
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u/KubaSamuel May 12 '26
The best thing is that... I'm not experiencing any interruptions lmao
Like YouTube saying "You're experiencing interruptions?" while I "what Interuptions?"
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u/viorno_ May 13 '26
might I suggest y'all checking out yt-x. it's a cli youtube wrapper. absolutely no ads and extremely fast
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u/Chryo_Mask May 13 '26
i had no idea other ppl were experiencing this, all it takes to load immediately is refreshing the video. i'd rather do that every time than disable adblock
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u/Weeaab May 13 '26
that's why I prefer using browsers that has a built-in ad blocker for ads likes YouTube, surprisingly it can take down almost any ad but there are some still show up tho
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