[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Anyone else getting continuous adverts from ...
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       Ask HN: Anyone else getting continuous adverts from YouTube?
        
       As per the title, anyone else getting continuous adverts from
       Youtube, making it impossible to watch anything on Youtube? Cant
       jump forward as it goes straight to an advert, even started
       watching youtube channels in the search list, but the youtube
       controls keep changing as well as well as dissappearing. One even
       managed to crash the computer, wiped out the screen, the keyboard,
       the mouse.  Keep getting an Eon advert over and over again, 20
       seconds long, singing away something about time is running out, and
       then immediately after the Eon advert loads of junk adverts for
       spurious health conditions which all seem to be voiced over by the
       same bloke?
        
       Author : darkclouds
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2023-07-26 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | pb7 wrote:
       | No, I pay for premium.
        
       | pwg wrote:
       | > anyone else getting continuous adverts from Youtube
       | 
       | No -- because I download anything I might want to watch from
       | youtube with yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-
       | dlp/wiki/Installation) and then watch with my native viewer -- so
       | no ads, besides those the creators insert directly into the video
       | itself.
        
         | satvikpendem wrote:
         | You can use SponsorBlock on yt-dlp as well, which is what I do
         | sometimes.
        
       | hsbauauvhabzb wrote:
       | Using ublock origin I've started to see adds on chrome. If I
       | click back and then forward, it skips the ads. This occurs only
       | at the start of videos afaict.
        
       | anigbrowl wrote:
       | On the (adblocked) computer, no. On my console (hooked up the to
       | the TV) it's so unpleasant that I rarely use it any more. Worse
       | than broadcast television, which is some sort of achievement.
        
       | throwaway019254 wrote:
       | No, using ublock origin and don't see any ads.
        
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