Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

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AmirGTR

Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by AmirGTR »

Yup. Tried ad block plus, worked for me for ages, but not anymore.

Then resorted to F5. Worked for a while, but not anymore.

Now I have to sit through that damn thing? Hellllllllllll nooooooo.

Help me out guys. I'm using Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7 X64. My ad block plus is up to date.
AmirGTR

Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by AmirGTR »

Come on guys, no one? I'm talking about the video advertisements on Youtube. Anyway we could avoid this? If not, can we expect Ad Block Plus to figure out a way around them?
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Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by fanboy »

In short, no. given some youtube providers need to play the ad before the video starts.
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Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by AmirGTR »

fanboy wrote:In short, no. given some youtube providers need to play the ad before the video starts.
Well the channels don't "need" to do anything. Their contracts with youtube does not require the channels to play any specific video before the video starts, but gives permission to Youtube to play an unrelated video before their video.

Youtube knows if you've watched the ad or not, they actually send you a cookie containing what time you entered the video, only allowing you to watch the video after x number of seconds. If Ad Block Plus can detect it and manipulate that cookie so that it would indicate x number of seconds has already passed, the video will be skipped.

I realize this is pretty vague but that's how it seems to be working.
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Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by spas|spas »

You can try to add "greasemonkey" to Firefox and then use a google ads blocker script to block ads which are not blocked by Adblock Plus. That should work.

But, for the time being, greasemonkey is not compatible with Firefox 4 beta. One needs to resort to Firefox non beta versions to use it.

http://userscripts.org/about/installing
asdf

Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by asdf »

come on, spas. There are no ads on youtube that require anything other than adblock plus to prevent them. If you can't figure it out, that's your inability, not the extension's. I have no problem blocking all ads on youtube and watching any video I want. You can't block google ads on youtube? What an amateur.

Pro-tip checklist for killing youtube ads:

google$third-party,domain=youtube.com

doubleclick$domain=youtube.com

block any object_subrequest items from any subdomain of youtube.com that is not /crossdomain.xml

Block any first-party flash or script from youtube.com except object_subrequest from *.c.youtube.com (||c.youtube.com$~object_subrequest)

|http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/ad-

Actually, anything from s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/ is uncessary. Video players come from /yt/swfbin/

Block all non-images from every other domain of ytimg.com.

DONE. ADS ARE GONE.

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Also, greasemonkey has a beta that is compatible with firefox 4. Even so, there is a fork of greasemonkey called Scriptish, which can be found at amo, that was created months ago specifically to be firefox 4 compatible, and has other enhancements.
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Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by spas|spas »

1- yes, i'm an amateur of web-stuff. 2- i'm using ABP for ages and very satisfied of its performance BUT in some youtube pages it lets the ads go through, even its symbol on the right corner of the browser turns green. 3- i, an amateur, really have no wish nor knowledge to scan through those elements of a webpage and choose the ones which needs to be blocked. 4- i used greasemonkey for ages and very satisfied with its performance as well. 5-i just wanted to share what i know as an amateur 6-if you gain anything scorning people or specifically me, go on, nothing hinders you.

thanks.
lkjh

Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by lkjh »

spas|spas wrote:2- i'm using ABP for ages and very satisfied of its performance BUT in some youtube pages it lets the ads go through, even its symbol on the right corner of the browser turns green.
If it turns green, that means it is allowing ads on that page - i.e. not even trying to block them. Are you sure you didn't accidentally click the AdBlock "Disable on this page only" option or something?
random

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Post by random »

but now im noticing the video doesn't play until the ad comes on. and the adblocker is off

Sure i never see the add, but i never see the video either
Jonessen

Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by Jonessen »

Use Opera and Youtube AdsFree (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RjnQliU28)
I think it's not available in Firefox :D
But Opera is just better ;D
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Post by Captain Edd »

Download Youtube video with Real Player .. and upload to your Vimeo account :idea:
DWA

Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by DWA »

asdf wrote:come on, spas. There are no ads on youtube that require anything other than adblock plus to prevent them. If you can't figure it out, that's your inability, not the extension's. I have no problem blocking all ads on youtube and watching any video I want. You can't block google ads on youtube? What an amateur.

Pro-tip checklist for killing youtube ads:

google$third-party,domain=youtube.com

doubleclick$domain=youtube.com

block any object_subrequest items from any subdomain of youtube.com that is not /crossdomain.xml

Block any first-party flash or script from youtube.com except object_subrequest from *.c.youtube.com (||c.youtube.com$~object_subrequest)

|http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/ad-

Actually, anything from s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/ is uncessary. Video players come from /yt/swfbin/

Block all non-images from every other domain of ytimg.com.

DONE. ADS ARE GONE.

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Also, greasemonkey has a beta that is compatible with firefox 4. Even so, there is a fork of greasemonkey called Scriptish, which can be found at amo, that was created months ago specifically to be firefox 4 compatible, and has other enhancements.
These are the type of answers given by tech savvy people who have forgotten what it's like when you first start out with this stuff. It's pretty much gobbeldy-goop to me. If you don't have patience with new people, how do you expect them to learn...

Just my opinion but I'm entitled to it.
DWA

Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by DWA »

Can anyone give me simple step by step directions FROM THE BEGINING on how to use ablocks plus to block ads on youtube and still get videos to play? With adblock enabled I just get a line of text along the side with no graphics whenever I open youtube
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Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by lewisje »

I've always just used ABP with the Fanboy Ultimate subscription...
There's a buzzin' in my brain I really can't explain; I think about it before they make me go to bed.
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Re: Youtube Ads UNAVOIDABLE?

Post by steveoccd »

lewisje wrote:I've always just used ABP with the Fanboy Ultimate subscription...
awesome advice^^^
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