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I got one ad that was 10 minutes and couldn't be skipped. I said, yeah screw that noise, copy/paste youtube-dl url

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Why don't you install an adblocker, which will block the ads for you?

Some people are labouring under the misapprehension that adblockers are immoral.

I think a 25' ad for a 5' video is a lot more immoral...

I have one, not everything gets blocked.

Ah, ok. Try AdGuard, it works great for YT ads.

uBlock has youtube specific rules, check my setup https://i.imgur.com/S9pCwIc.png

Well, one or the other. I don't think it makes a difference.

Make sure you have these rules enabled https://i.imgur.com/S9pCwIc.png

This blocks all twitter/facebook/google/botnet widgets, other tracking elements, all ads, even those on youtube. Highly increases your privacy and browsing experience. I use these rules for so long I even forgot youtube has ads.

Sometimes I just pull up the youtube app on my iPad no ad blockers work on there. And if I'm making food, I honestly don't worry as much about the ad.

But a 10 minute ad for a 2 minute video? Even then i'll download the video just to spite the entire ad platform, thats insane.

I use the latest uBlock Origin with the latest stable Google Chrome on Linux. I have the block lists above (https://i.imgur.com/S9pCwIc.png) enabled, and I'm still getting lots of ads on YouTube. Ads started appearing in 2018, it was fine before.

Any advice how I can get rid of ads on YouTube?

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