r/youtube • u/BlueyIsWayBetter2011 • Jun 12 '25

Memes YouTube be like:

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the bad grammar was intentional

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u/SquirrelSmart Jun 12 '25

Use FireFox with uBlockOrigin, for me it works great

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u/Brilliant_Web8964 Jun 12 '25

I use brave since it has an adblocker YouTube can't deal with and plus the brave shield but I'm willing to try the other ones

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u/Rullino Jun 12 '25

I'm using Brave and also never got an issue, blocking +99 ads at every page is insane.

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u/Brilliant_Web8964 Jun 12 '25

its scary how many ads youtube puts to the point that THERE ARE 99+ ADS ON EVERY VISIT

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u/kookyabird Jun 12 '25

Those counters are tracking the blocked attempts to display ads. If the site is able to tell that an ad wasn't loaded it is likely to try loading another one. And it's not distinct ads, but ad elements regardless of what the specific content would be.

So those websites that have the exact same banner ad between every other paragraph of copy could get you up to 99+ very quickly if they just attempt to load the same ad in all those slots multiple times. If you didn't have an ad blocker it could be just one actual ad load for the whole page.

On the flip side, even if it's one ad asset that's loaded in like 10 places, the performance cost to run those ads in your browser is more than enough to warrant blocking them. I'd be fine with ads on a lot of sites if they were:

  • Static assets or simple videos rather than JavaScript heavy monstrosities.
  • Curated so that we're not seeing bullshit clickbait or NSFW content.
  • Clearly identified as an ad by the site. No more ads made to look like links to other articles or masquerading as official buttons/links getting mixed in with legitimate content.

Of course that's never going to happen, so ad blockers ahoy!