Ad Block?

[TheRisingMyth]

As I said in my other post, they could always give us the choice...Right now they force us to see every ad there is, so we have to block them all. If they gave us a choice, a lot of us would be quite happy to see the ads we're okay with if they let us remove the ads we're not (again, "they" being YouTube, not Adblock).

 

Hell, I'd even be okay with ads that played sounds at the same level as background music. If I were to start watching the Livestream Archive on YouTube and to the right of the video an Intel ad played with

at the end (once), I'd be fine with it, or hell, even a

with their music playing softly in the background, so long as there was no voiceover and Linus/Slick remained audible and understandable.

 

Do I have that option though? No. They don't give me a choice but to remove all ads.

 

The current problem with ads is that : THEY NEED to get your attention, but at the same time they piss you off.

 

The technology is there to adapt ads to users' needs, they just don't want to invest in it.

[HK6]

I actively use AdBlock and have no white-listed sites. I also fully understand why somebody like Linus doesn't appreciate a person like me. I don't do it because I don't want to support the content creators; I do it because I don't want to be force-fed advertisements that I don't care about, and that the content creator potentially does not endorse. Whenever Linus has something like the Intel advertisement at the beginning of a video, I will sit and watch the whole ad.

 

Quite frankly, I am fed up with advertising. I was watching a movie on TV the other day and consistently had three minutes of commercials for every nine minutes of the movie. Not a single one of those commercials applied to any of my interests in the slightest. I ended up just turning the TV off because I was fed up with that crap.

 

I understand that ad revenue is a really crucial way for content creators, especially on YouTube, to get revenue, but I would much rather repay them in some other way.

[Toby]

The current problem with ads is that : THEY NEED to get your attention, but at the same time they piss you off.

 

They need attention, but they go beyond that and begin disrupting what you're doing in order to try and get that attention. They're like a little child standing between you and the TV, misbehaving to try and get you to interact with them.

[vanwazltoff]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Google-Adblock-Plus-Whitelist,23408.html

 

yeah, adblock has lost its effectiveness. i would suggest not relying on one extension, rather use many instead

[grayperview]

Hosts file is the most effective way of blocking ads....ad blocker is the icing on the cake so to speak.

[Seraphim401]

If there is a way to unblock only Linus videos I would do that, because I want to support him. What do you think guys?

Yes this would be the only way for me to disable AB on YT.