Knocking on wood, but at the moment ublock origin+ firefox still do the trick ? Well get the warning twice sine they start fighting adblocker, so it may change at some point.

But indeed, I should use youtube less, I pay for spotify, but sometimes use as a source for music, I tend to then fall on clickbaits video especially when cooking.

Because everybody else is rather unhelpful (JusT USe AdBlOck, DOn’t USE yoUToUBe), try this it you can’t get adblockers to work:

For specific ads, look at the ad information below the video. There should be three vertical dots you can click, which will open a menu. From there you can report inappropriate ads or tell Youtube you’re not interested in those. The “not interested” button doesn’t always show for some reason, I think you may need to be logged in for that to show? You can always report the ad, that’ll make it disappear for you.

Customising ad topics and brands on your Google account can help get broader strokes of ad topics out of your ads. You can customise (up to a certain extent) what kind of ads Google will show you. You’ll still get ads based on the video subject, but it can help to remove specific entries.

If you’re on Chrome, you can try going to the new ad settings in your browser and see if there are specific topics you can disable from there. Google’s latest change to the ad ecosystem was making the interest tracking happen locally. There’s a good chance you have it disabled, though.

Adblock does still work for Youtube, as long as you don’t stack ad blockers like they’re layers on a sandwich. Blocking ads has become more involved, though, now only a few ad blockers will work and they won’t work in Chrome in a few months. Don’t do the crap reddit tells you (adding custom rules, changing settings willy-nilly), just run uBlock Origin at default settings.

On mobile, Revanced works pretty well. It takes some effort to set up right, but once you’ve got it running you won’t need to bother looking after it for a few months. I’m not sure if there’s an iOS alternative.

Its not possible to “downvote” ads but you can still block them by using ublock origin on firefox

You don’t.

You’ll take whatever cock daddy capitalism shoves down your throat and you’ll damn well like it.

Or use an adblocker.

ublock origin still works

Firefox + uBlockOrigin

1. Tap and hold on the YouTube app icon
2. Press “Delete”
3. Confirm any following prompts

As others have said, you can’t. I’ve tried as they used to give me these gross ads about deep ear cleaning. The ads would show them digging old crusty earwax out of an ear. It was 100% not appropriate and was extremely gross. Like watching someone go it gross.

I’m sure it was all fake, but I still could not believe they would/could show that stuff.

unlock orgin is one of the best Adblockers and there’s revanced, newpipe sponsorock and YouTube frontends

edit: or you could leave and reclick on the video

Here’s a creative way to do it.

1. Print out the downvote symbol and a screenshot of the ad.
2. Dip the paper in dog shit to emphasize that the ad is a shitpost.
3. Send it to 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043.
4. ???
5. Profit.

What platform?

The platforms I use, Android, Android TV and desktop, all have working and easy to install ad blocking options.

or we could just stop using services and products made by american run corpos.

Short answer: You can’t

Slightly longer answer: Report it as offensive, dangerous, or porn

ETA: Best answer: As already mentioned, use FF + uBO

koff koff

if your account is banned for adblocker (like one of mine) make new a account and it still works. (firefox, not sure about others)

pain in the ass to resub, but better than watching ads on the channels i have not whitelisted.

Ad blockers work fine, what do you mean? Youtube lost, their next big idea wont even try kicking in until next year.