Anyone else getting sick of these YouTube ads?

[Jenkins]

I've been trying for months to find out what funeral directors in my town don't want me to know.

They probably use WD40 for a special trick (according to a glut of these sort of things on my local rag's website)

 

[lane]

Was watching a concert Springsteen released for the lockdown - Hyde Park 2009 it's excellent. Anyway bloody you tube adds getting on my nerves so switched to watching on Apple which was a lot better. Only thing was the adds on Apple were mostly for bloody YouTube.

 

[lane]

I've been trying for months to find out what funeral directors in my town don't want me to know.

Or how cruise ships sell unsold cabins. With great difficulty at the moment I imagine.

 

[mustang1]

Can’t you pay to lose the ads?
Otherwise, just don’t use YouTube?

I do not mind watching adverts. I'm complaining more about the types of adverts.

 

[wafter]

Shocks me that anyone endures this tripe tbh - why no ad blocker?

I run Adlbock Plus and ublock origin which work very well - I never see ads on any of the sites I visit.

From my occasional experiences when these plugins crash / I have to use another machine, I'm not sure I could stomach using the net at all with the slew of invasive, distractionary cack that seeks to waste your time and manipulate you into parting with your money

I don't have a telly for similar reasons and when I do get exposed to ads it really is a shock how aggressive they are, in the vacuum of having not been conditioned to them over years of viewing.

I think I read that only something like 5-10% of people use ad blockers; which I guess is a good thing since the majoritiy who don't subsidise the minoritiy who do

 

[Archie_tect]

If we want free to view information we have to accept that the owners of sites will want to get paid for what they do and selling advertising space gives them an income... it's still true that you never get anything for nothing.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I don't remember what type of ads I get, I'm focused on the skip ad button. I don't really mind, free content comes at a cost and most are only 5 seconds. I use a paid service for music so no ads there

 

[Shut Up Legs]

On my PCs, I just replaced my existing hosts file with the one available here: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Unfortunately, it won't block Youtube ads, but it blocks a lot of web page ads, including those annoying ones in which every word starts with a CAPITAL LETTER! As soon as I see that p@#% poor excuse for grammar/spelling, I tune out...

 

[DaveReading]

On my PCs, I just replaced my existing hosts file with the one available here: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Unfortunately, it won't block Youtube ads, but it blocks a lot of web page ads, including those annoying ones in which every word starts with a CAPITAL LETTER! As soon as I see that p@#% poor excuse for grammar/spelling, I tune out...

+1 for using an edited HOSTS file to suppress ads.

Only downside is that the one from MVPS suppresses googleadservices.com, so when you click on an ad on Google, you get a "can't connect to that site" error. But that's a small price to pay.

 

[mjr]

If we want free to view information we have to accept that the owners of sites will want to get paid for what they do and selling advertising space gives them an income... it's still true that you never get anything for nothing.

Yes but if they stopped selling to scammers, fewer people would block the ads.

 

[mjr]

As for YouTube, various non Google apps don't show the ads

 

[jay clock]

I keep getting the same shot of a very busty attractive woman from various dating sites. They do agree that she lives in my town though.

 

[classic33]

I keep getting the same shot of a very busty attractive woman from various dating sites. They do agree that she lives in my town though.

Deborah, living five miles from you?

 

[jay clock]

Deborah, living five miles from you?

Yes. Do you know her?

 

[Globalti]

I'm also worried about my life insurance, my driving licence, my hearing, my teeth and whether or not I should remortgage my house after skimping and saving all my working life to pay the effing mortgage off.