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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 9 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 1.184s | source | bottom
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ddtaylor ◴[21 Jun 25 00:02 UTC] No.44333279[source]▶
I don't care when YouTube does a buffer thing because blocking ads for me is about distractions and context switching. My cognitive load is already very high and it's extremely frustrating to have to filter out more garbage.
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paulcole ◴[21 Jun 25 00:34 UTC] No.44333459[source]▶
You could just pay the $13/month? Would save the worries about context switching further taxing your already high cognitive load? And I would expect your high cognitive load helps you earn well above $13/month?
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dleslie ◴[21 Jun 25 00:43 UTC] No.44333502[source]▶
Paying for YT doesn't remove the ads.

On the other hand, the golden era of YouTube has passed. You aren't losing out on much if you simply stop using it.

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1. pier25 ◴[21 Jun 25 00:51 UTC] No.44333546[source]▶
Youtube premium does remove all Google's ads.

Obviously not the ads the content creator has put into the video itself.

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2. chasebank ◴[21 Jun 25 01:04 UTC] No.44333619[source]▶
There's an add-on called sponsor block, which works remarkably well, that will just skip sponsored ads inside videos.
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5. dleslie ◴[21 Jun 25 02:11 UTC] No.44333910[source]▶
Depends on the Premium tier.

But yes, uBlock and Sponsorblock together do a much better job of removing the ads.

6. ddtaylor ◴[21 Jun 25 03:02 UTC] No.44334150[source]▶
SponsorBlock is amazing. It tells you how much time you've saved. It adds up quick. I can't say I've met anyone who misses random two minute breaks about weird scam cooking services, etc.
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7. sadeshmukh ◴[21 Jun 25 03:13 UTC] No.44334198[source]▶
There's also a button to skip commonly skipped sections - basically sponsor skip.
8. tasuki ◴[21 Jun 25 07:36 UTC] No.44335506{3}[source]▶
I don't use sponsor block and don't think I've ever seen an ad like that.

I'd like to think some content creators are more scrupulous than others, and I have good enough taste not to watch the unscrupulous ones ;-)

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9. ddtaylor ◴[21 Jun 25 19:11 UTC] No.44339974{4}[source]▶
Some creators do a better job and anyone is free to whitelist those creators. There are a few creators I have whitelisted, but to be honest, they don't run "better" ads than other creators. Sure, some make them more "digestible" by making them jokes, but even a content creator I support a ton is still just running your basic Squarespace ads. Creators do the best they can to map the available sponsorships to their audience, but the fact remains that the lions share of sponsorships available are for services we are not interested in and advertising has stopped being an effective way to lure audiences.