Getting around the ads on YouTube

twitter ^ | 11/21 | Tony Vincent

[TChad]

Interesting. Virustotal gives https://yout-ube.com/ a clean bill of health.

There is some information about them at https://www.yout-ube.com/#about.

Here's their whois info:

C:\temp>whois yout-ube.com

Whois v1.14 - Domain information lookup
Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
Connecting to COM.whois-servers.net...
Domain ID: 2121154527_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.google.com
Registrar URL: http://domains.google.com
Updated Date: 2021-04-05T09:03:26Z
Creation Date: 2017-05-06T16:23:15Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2022-05-06T16:23:15Z
Registrar: Google LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 895
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: registrar-abuse@google.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8772376466

Domain Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-E1.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-E2.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-E3.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
Name Server: NS-CLOUD-E4.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
DNSSEC: signedDelegation
DNSSEC DS Data: 33577 8 285EAC27E2DDD0A898ED6CDAACBAAF78CDD87F2CE3C01CD49184 21352810FCE9A
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/

>>> Last update of whois database: 2021-11-03T07:11:15Z <<<

For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp

Google LLC is the registrar. Looks legit to me...

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Wow

[wgmalabama]

Entire world knows and is disabled in 7 hours. JMHO

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[TChad]

Entire world knows and is disabled in 7 hours. JMHO

Maybe, but the website was created in 2017 and was last updated in April 2021.

It seems strange to me that this site exists. It appears to deprive Google of advertising revenue.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Does Youtube still have ads!?

Use Brave, or add an ad-blocker like “uBlock Origin” to the browser of your choice. No more ads!

[FLvoter]

Or, as soon as the video starts, drag the red line to the very end and then push replay. Won’t see ads.

[Sans-Culotte]

Bump

[TChad]

Looks legit to me...

I retract that. I can't find enough information to convince myself that the website is legitimate. How does the site make money?

Too strange.

[roving]

An adblock works just fine. I never see adds. As for loops, there is a control on the video you can just slide over and it ends loops.

If using my cell on youtube, I just use brave. No ads.

[Spktyr]

uBlock Origin and other adblockers do just fine at blocking YouTube ads.

[AlaskaErik]

I just use Adblocker Ultimate.

[aquila48]

Bookmark - thanks for the tip

[Revel]

Certain add blockers and java script blockers cut most of the commercials too.

[blondiegoodbadugly]

AWESOME! Thanks! :-)

[The Mayor]

Hmm, I’ll try it too. I got so angry at them, the took away my monetization.
I opened up a rumble account and am posting my videos there.
I don’t see ads at rumble.

[Pollard]

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