The average consumer doesn’t know that AdBlocker exist.
Someone doesn’t have skip sponsor Firefox plugin
This is precisely why I will never ever, everfuckingever get/buy/use Liberty Mutual Insurance.
Their fucking ads are everywhere, and they’re always “oh we’re so quriky, lulzzor emu so random” millenial fucking cringe humor.
I have never once bought something from a youtube ad but I have decided not to buy something because I saw it in a youtube ad.
You know what really grinds my gears?
Airplanes with those banners that they tow…at the fucking beach.
Im out here in the sun trying to relax and enjoy the day when this loud ass fucking single engine prop plane has to fly low and slow right across the beach to tell me about some personal injury lawyer or some used car dealership
Absolutely guarantees I will not patronize their business.
I am disgusted its even allowed, it’s a complete waste of everything involved.
CEO: Got it. More ads in products.
Had to put up with ads this past week since the over decade old AIO I was using in my PC apparently had most of the liquid evaporate out (when I fully removed it I sloshed it around and it sounded like there was maybe a tablespoon of liquid in it 😳) so I had kept it off until I got a new cooler yesterday. The one that pissed me off the most was the political ad claiming 1776AB will hurt small businesses. I look up the bill, and one of the first fucking lines of it says that small businesses under a certain number of employees are EXEMPT FROM THE CHANGES. Always look who’s paying for the ads: A bunch of fucking big corporate bitches trying to swindle you.
If I see an ad I won’t buy it
But you HAVE heard of me
…any tricks to block youtube ads on a work computer that absolutely can’t have anything installed on it?
Youtube and music.youtube are a good source of music at work, so far the best I got it to to skip forward then back until ads stop. Works, but requires active input.
It’s easiest to bring your own player or RaspberryPi and listen locally.
But if you absolutely insist on streaming to your work PC you can always run a VM in your browser: https://dev.to/dchif/run-a-virtual-machine-in-your-browser-2kjk
Download the music at home with yt-dlp, put it on USB and bring the USB to work.
Can you sneak in a raspberry pi? Maybe install pihole, eblocker, adguard home, or technitium on it and point your PC DNS settings to it? Requires hooking up another device on the work network, idk how locked down you’re network is, but it’d be sweet if you could do that.
I run everything at work. I’ve got 3 raspberry pi’s I run for redundancy and block ads for everyone at work. Occasionally, one of our teams complain because they’re searching a product on Google and clicking the top link that’s an ad, so I just whitelist their PCs from blocking. It’s annoying they’re so set in their ways, like find another link that doesn’t say sponsored, but oh well. Best of luck.
Sorry, no idea how to fix that, short of spending money. But if you ever end up considering doing that, I’d like to suggest buying music rather than paying for a subscription like YouTube premium or Spotify etc.
