You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain

Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by juanuys on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:37PM (#23479821)

I have premium, but some content creators still do some product placements for sponsors.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by renegading on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:20PM (#23480329)

There is a Firefox extensions that aims to solve that problem[1].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

Edit: Chrome Version: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by grawprog on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:45PM (#23479908)

I personally don't mind the product placements and sponsor stuff creators put in videos. I prefer those to the built in youtube ads any day. Especially when video creators get creative with their placements.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by dvtrn on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:55PM (#23480022)

When the creator finds a way of writing the ad into the rest of the content I'm already there to watch in the first place it's kind of great and I applaud the creativity, like you said. Wisecrack does this really well from time to time, I forget the movie review but they snuck an ad read in there that was so relevant and fitting that when Jared (the host) copped to it at the end of the episode I had to go back and rewatch to even realize "holy cow that WAS an ad".

It's less enjoyable when the content comes to a total halt mid-segment to plug this week's sponsor even though I completely understand these people are just trying to eek out some coin for the content they spent time making for me to watch.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by grawprog on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:49PM (#23480652)

>It's less enjoyable when the content comes to a total halt mid-segment to plug this week's sponsor even though I completely understand these people are just trying to eek out some coin for the content they spent time making for me to watch.

This for sure. Though I still prefer that to the abrupt, suddenly I'm now watching an ad that's 3 times as loud as what I was watching before, it's somehow suspiciously 'relevant' to what google thinks it knows about me, and can appear without warning once, twice, maybe even 3 times in a 10-15 minute video depending on, well I'm honestly not sure what after trying to figure it out for a while now, and may or may not be skippable, depending on again, I'm not too sure what.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by dvtrn on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:19PM (#23480955)

Though I still prefer that to the abrupt, suddenly I'm now watching an ad that's 3 times as loud as what I was watching before

Yup. I'm one of the rubes who ponied up for youtube premium out of my 'fun money' funds account to get away from this. It's kind of weird, some of us asked for this "I'll happily pay to get rid of the ads", Google called that bet and dammit I folded haha.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by grozzle on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:14PM (#23480282)

Good point. The podcasts I support via Patreon mostly provide a premium feed with with the sponsor-spots edited out. This seems like a good idea for YouTube Premium to get creators to do; it'd make me much more likely to actually pay for Premium.

As it is, it youtube-dl everything to my Pi and play it through Kodi on my TV, so the regular ads never reach me anyway.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by kawfey on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:47PM (#23479933)

This is fine, because all of the ad revenue goes to the creator. Adsense (pre-roll, banners, etc) is mostly kept by Google.

Creators need to be paid for their creations too.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by foggyeyes69 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:49PM (#23479958)

Creators get 55% of YouTube Ad Revenue

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