[paulpauper]

I just want fewer ads. So many ads and sponsors. 10-15 second intro ads, then 10-second middle ads, and then ending ads. ANd then also sponsorship ads. I know there are extensions that can block some of these, but it's so aggravating too.

[erklik]

Who doesn't have uBlock Origin in this day and age? It blocks essentially every ad that Youtube pushes. Now, if you want no sponsors as well, go for SponsorBlock, it skips parts of the video marked as "sponsor" etc.

[casion]

Not everyone watches youtube on their computer.

[erklik]

That's a massively good point that I somehow failed to remember. Thankyou. My bad.

[GeorgeWBasic]

Kiwi Browser on Android works with uBlock just fine, and I think Brave's built-in adblocker also stopped youtube ads for me, but I'm less sure of that one.

[terrycody]

hey I am using Firefox, by uBlock Origin, I never saw even an ad for years, you can try this. I guess Chrome browser also got it.

[rtsil]

uBlock Origin stops blocking ads on Youtube for at least a day every time Chrome is updated, unlike on Firefox, which is consistently blocking ads.

[jimjimjim]

youtube premium is awesome. I can't recommend it enough.

[thamer]

Agreed. That said, YouTube Premium doesn't remove sponsor segments in videos, and these days many videos include a long segment about their sponsor of the day or their merch/patreon.

For this, I've recently discovered the Chrome extension SponsorBlock[1], which relies on user-submitted segments to auto-skip all kinds of off-topic segments in the video. You can choose to keep, skip, or mute segments like intros, sponsor promo, subscription reminders, and more. This metadata is not available on every single video, but in my experience it has made a huge difference in the amount of ads and repetitive reminders I see. Many videos get segment updates very quickly.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...

[jjoonathan]

I installed this recently after hitting an especially egregious sponsor segment. It's good, while it lasts.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

I've been a YouTube premium subscribe for some number of years.

I easily watch 10 to 15 hours or more of video on YouTube each month, probably per week.

Plus YouTube Music makes it the best value streaming service I pay for.

[addaon]

I'm a YouTube Premium subscriber, but the one thing that would make me feel good about the subscription would be a way to block channels that show sponsored ads, even manually -- I pay money to avoid ads, and I understand that they can't, or choose not to, mark those videos that have ads anyway, but give me the tools to do it myself. (It looks like this might be possible in a browser, but Apple TV is my primary client, and the Apple TV app gets actively worse with each release...)