Sadly, not anymore - used to be the case quite a while ago, but not today anymore as the ads come from the same domains the videos are streamed from.
Those simpler popover-ads which can be closed clicking an X in the upper right corner still are blocked tho...
Spilling my secret tho (and YouTube execs hate me for it!): i block YouTube in my mind and only rarely go to it if i really need to watch a video (which, for me, is rarer than i ever thought it'd be).
Nope, YouTube blocks some videos from being played and I'm not getting around those in any way. Some videos have ads in them that come up from the bottom, those are preserved and not touched.
Sort of, it’d be tough though. YouTube ads aren’t blocked because they’re not using a third party ad vendor. They’re big enough that they run their own auctions. The vast majority of services aren’t capable of creating the auction themselves, so their ads can be blocked.
Actually, no.
> they are served from the same inscrutable urls as real video
This may be right, so host based adblocking may not work.
However, uBlock origin etc definitely block youtube ads and it works as a browser extension so they have access to the DOM and probably do something there.
I have one of those but I can't seem to block them effectively. I think the advert URLs are not specific to adverts, ie they're the same as normal YouTube videos.
They don't do that on YouTube but they do something similar on other platforms. Though instead of having different videos they just stitch the ads into the front of the video so you can't block them without blocking the content.
Those simpler popover-ads which can be closed clicking an X in the upper right corner still are blocked tho...
Spilling my secret tho (and YouTube execs hate me for it!): i block YouTube in my mind and only rarely go to it if i really need to watch a video (which, for me, is rarer than i ever thought it'd be).
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