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YouTube is putting massive autoplaying ads on its TV apps (Update: Here to stay)
Do you like seeing massive ads that take up half of your TV screen? No? Too bad, because you'll soon be forced to watch the company's signature Masthead ads on your television's YouTube app. This is bound to be a huge moneymaker for our pals at Google.
Google says that YouTube is the number-one ad-supported streaming TV platform in both reach and watch time, with TVs its fastest-growing device at 250 million hours watched per day. Of course, YouTube generates a vast majority of its revenue through ads, so it was only a matter of time before it used those statistics to its benefit.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/11/25/youtube-is-putting-massive-autoplaying-ads-on-its-tv-apps/
#wtf #ads #deletegoogle
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Do you like seeing massive ads that take up half of your TV screen? No? Too bad, because you'll soon be forced to watch the company's signature Masthead ads on your television's YouTube app. This is bound to be a huge moneymaker for our pals at Google.
Google says that YouTube is the number-one ad-supported streaming TV platform in both reach and watch time, with TVs its fastest-growing device at 250 million hours watched per day. Of course, YouTube generates a vast majority of its revenue through ads, so it was only a matter of time before it used those statistics to its benefit.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/11/25/youtube-is-putting-massive-autoplaying-ads-on-its-tv-apps/
#wtf #ads #deletegoogle
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You can bypass youtube ads by adding a dot after the domain
💡On desktop browsers.
To follow up: I had initially assumed that it didn't work on mobile because the browsers normalized the URL, however this isn't the case. The redirection happens on the server side. So, if you want this to work on mobile browsers, use the "Request Desktop Site" feature.
For example:
It's a commonly forgotten edge case, websites forget to normalize the hostname, the content is still served, but there's no hostname match on the browser so no cookies and broken CORS - and lots of bigger sites use a different domain to serve ads/media with a whitelist that doesn't contain the extra dot
💡 This works for many news websites as well serving paywalls, e.g.
https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/gzr3cq/fyi_you_can_bypass_youtube_ads_by_adding_a_dot/
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/06/13/bypass-ads-on-youtube-and-some-paywalls-without-third-party-tools/
👉🏼 Read more 🇩🇪:
https://www.golem.de/news/url-trick-ein-zeichen-mehr-und-youtube-ist-werbefrei-2006-149095.html
#youtube #yt #ads #paywalls
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💡On desktop browsers.
To follow up: I had initially assumed that it didn't work on mobile because the browsers normalized the URL, however this isn't the case. The redirection happens on the server side. So, if you want this to work on mobile browsers, use the "Request Desktop Site" feature.
For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuB8VUICGqc // will occasionally show adshttps://www.youtube.com./watch?v=DuB8VUICGqc // will not show adsIt's a commonly forgotten edge case, websites forget to normalize the hostname, the content is still served, but there's no hostname match on the browser so no cookies and broken CORS - and lots of bigger sites use a different domain to serve ads/media with a whitelist that doesn't contain the extra dot
💡 This works for many news websites as well serving paywalls, e.g.
https://www.nytimes.com./2020/06/09/us/george-floyd-who-is.html
👉🏼 Read more:https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/gzr3cq/fyi_you_can_bypass_youtube_ads_by_adding_a_dot/
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/06/13/bypass-ads-on-youtube-and-some-paywalls-without-third-party-tools/
👉🏼 Read more 🇩🇪:
https://www.golem.de/news/url-trick-ein-zeichen-mehr-und-youtube-ist-werbefrei-2006-149095.html
#youtube #yt #ads #paywalls
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