YouTube made ad-free by a Redditor





YouTube, the world’s biggest content streaming platform relies on advertisements for a major portion of its revenue. These advertisements come in the form of small skippable videos that pop up at the beginning or in the middle of the videos. They are necessary for YouTube and its creators but a pain for us users. Recently, a Redditor on the subreddit r/Webdev posted a hack that lets users disable YouTube ads.

This hack requires you to put a dot after youtube.com in the URL. So, effectively https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuB8VUICGqc becomes https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=DuB8VUICGqc

Reddit is a hub of over a million subreddits where people can come and discuss literally anything. These are little communities of people obsessed with the same fields. Redditors are referred to as the nerds of the internet and so, it is only fair that such a hack was discovered by a Redditor.

This simple trick breaks the webpage in a certain way that YouTube cannot understand the page anymore. What this translates to is that the video keeps playing but the ads are disabled. The trick only works on a desktop or in the browser on a phone in desktop mode.

This is a huge power considering our ever-increasing YouTube consumption in the lockdown. And let’s be honest, no one likes sitting through an ad. Even those 5 seconds before we can skip an ad seem like an awful lot. But we should remember that ads are the only source of revenue for creators on YouTube. So if you love the art a creator puts on YouTube, please don’t mind sitting through a 5-second advertisement.

Now, blocking ads on YouTube is not old, it has been around for some time. A Google Chrome extension lets you do this. There are other extensions or whole browsers for blocking the ads on websites (but please don’t use it here :P). But companies are also fighting back against blocking ads now. A lot of news media houses, having shifted majority of their business online, now ask users to turn off their ad-blockers to view the content. So we believe YouTube also may fix this loophole soon.

Till then, enjoy your videos ad-free with this simple hack!

https://bit.ly/2UJ3Bpi


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