on youtube how do I downvote an ad? or how do i tell youtube that "hey this ad is not something I want to see?" I know ad blockers don't work on youtube anymore but how do I tweek what ads i do see?

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ublock origin still works

Firefox + uBlockOrigin

Ad blockers work fine, what do you mean? Youtube lost, their next big idea wont even try kicking in until next year.

As others have said, adblockers do still work on YouTube. Specifically, uBlock Origin works great on YouTube, as long as you don't use it with any other adblockers.

Also if you're using Chrome, stop using Chrome. uBlock Origin still works on Chrome most of the time but Google is doing their best to kill it off. Switch to Firefox.

Ad blockers do still work on YouTube if you switch to Firefox. Aternatiely you ca n try out some 3rd party YouTube front end websites like invidious and piped. Just try out a few different instances each are a little different and some may work better than others.

I personally like vid.puffyan.us for invidious and piped.video for piped.

You don't.

You'll take whatever cock daddy capitalism shoves down your throat and you'll damn well like it.

Or use an adblocker.

Capitalism is supposed to give consumers choice. It could help if consumers used a greater variety of video sites, eg. Dailymotion or that weird chinese thing BiliBili. If they keep focusing on Youtube, despite all that bullshit, they are basically begging for more bullshit.

You have a choice. Use their service with the shitty ads or find something else to do.

It sucks, but that’s what you’ve got.

Third option is to use the service without ads by either subscribing or using an adblocker.

that's just a temporal patch and does not solve the monopoly situation

Capitalism is supposed to give consumers choice.

Nah that's just propaganda, capitalism is supposed to be efficient and make profits, but tends towards monopolies over time.
User choice comes ONLY from regulation preventing monopolies and dishonest practices.

unlock orgin is one of the best Adblockers and there's revanced, newpipe sponsorock and YouTube frontends

edit: or you could leave and reclick on the video

Sorry to nitpick, but it's Ublock Origin. I know autocorrect hates "ublock"

thanks, im an human and humans make mistakes

edit: i have auto correct off but the middle text button thing on

I 100% want trying to be a dick to you, I only said that in case people that didn't know better tried to search it. Apologies if I came off sideways!

When the ad is playing you may see Sponsored X:XX and a little i in a circle in the lower left corner. Click the i. This will give you the ability to block or report the ad as appropriate. It will also show you what category has been associated to you as to why you received the ad, you can say if you want more or less ads of that category.

The iOS mobile app has a bug currently where you need to quit the app and come back after doing this, but it does block the ad and you won’t see that particular cut of the ad again. Unfortunately unless it’s a mid-video ad, or from a channel you’re subscribed to you will lose the video you’re watching as it hasn’t made it into your play history yet. But if the ad was mid-video your video can be resumed via history. For clarity, the video still exists, it’s just hit or miss if the video will be in the curated randomness they present you for you to try starting the video again.

Just use newpipe or something similar. I haven't used the actual YouTube app in years there's literally no reason to

Its not possible to “downvote” ads but you can still block them by using ublock origin on firefox

Here's a creative way to do it.

  1. Print out the downvote symbol and a screenshot of the ad.
  2. Dip the paper in dog shit to emphasize that the ad is a shitpost.
  3. Send it to 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043.
  4. ????
  5. Profit.

You can affect the ads by finding normal ads around the internet (served by Google) and telling Google what is and isn't relevant to you.

However, Google seems to allow advertisers to lie and game their system. Ie PragerU will advertise some "trans is bad" "children's book" schlock, labeled as "video games."

When you're already sucking it up and trying to fairly engage with Google, it's disheartening to see they don't even pay attention to what they serve people.

So this comment kind of misunderstands how the Google ad system works for youtube.

When you click on a video, Google presents you, and the video you are watching (with categories associated with you and the video) to an auction. Advertisers then bid on your view, and whoever has the highest bid wins, you see their ad. This is all automated and happens in the blink of an eye, but that's the basic system.

This means that parties that want to show ads to you will get to, no matter your preferences.

Knocking on wood, but at the moment ublock origin+ firefox still do the trick ? Well get the warning twice sine they start fighting adblocker, so it may change at some point.

But indeed, I should use youtube less, I pay for spotify, but sometimes use as a source for music, I tend to then fall on clickbaits video especially when cooking.

Short answer: You can’t

Slightly longer answer: Report it as offensive, dangerous, or porn

ETA: Best answer: As already mentioned, use FF + uBO

There is usually a little circled i somewhere on the ad you click and select "this ad is not relevant to me."

It won't actually do anything, though and the same thing can be accomplished by going into your Google settings and turning off targeted ads in general.

adblocks works source: me using firefox and ublock origin, i only got the "we detect you are using adblock" message two times, and it was a month ago(also revanced on android)

What platform?

The platforms I use, Android, Android TV and desktop, all have working and easy to install ad blocking options.

koff koff

if your account is banned for adblocker (like one of mine) make new a account and it still works. (firefox, not sure about others)

pain in the ass to resub, but better than watching ads on the channels i have not whitelisted.

How do you get your account banned for adblock?

aparently i cannot upload a pic in the reply, might be a lemmy issue, might be me, i have been puffin lots today lol

but yeah, i get the 'violates tos' warning on every video, no matter the video. yet i swap over to my birds youtube and no issues at all. i dont even have to leave the page of that video, literally just swap accounts. I can still upload content to that account, but i cant even view my own videos while on that account.

Id be happy to screen record, post it to my birds youtube and show you what i mean.

As others have said, you can’t. I’ve tried as they used to give me these gross ads about deep ear cleaning. The ads would show them digging old crusty earwax out of an ear. It was 100% not appropriate and was extremely gross. Like watching someone go it gross.

I’m sure it was all fake, but I still could not believe they would/could show that stuff.

or we could just stop using services and products made by american run corpos.

Personally I don't want to put hundreds of creators out of work just because the company they work for sucks.

How many of these hundreds of creators do you support now?

Your patreon bill must be huge.

If I could support them through Patreon I wouldn't have to support them through YouTube.