There are currently multiple trivial ways for a layman to block all YouTube ads.

andrenotgiant 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

mostly true - but youtube has experimented with forcing a "loading state" for ad block users that was the same duration as the ads they would have watched. https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1l7b3c8/strange_lo...

	▲	shifto a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And I didn't even mind. Rather watch 15s of black screen than an obnoxious ad.
	▲	telesilla a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Is it possible that different regions have different ad experiences? I've not seen a single ad nor hint of one in a long time using the Brave browser on both android and desktop. Primarily in Europe.

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dozerly 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Clearly the original comment is from a mercenary nerd who has not heard of DNS blocking of ads.

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move-on-by 2 days ago | parent [-]

I’ve been very involved with the DNS blocking scene- and it’s extremely easy to circumvent. I always wonder if there are some principled nerds on the architecture side purposely designing things to be easily blocked with DNS blocking. Or perhaps the mercenary nerds are just that inept. Maybe a mix. I also don’t think the numbers of users with DNS blocking are large enough for the mercenary nerds to care about. However, the math for LoE to bypass DNS blocking has certainly changed recently.

	▲	spwa4 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's not. You forget the disadvantage the mercenary nerds have - they do not, and can not, trust each other. So having the same company serve ads as is serving the content can never happen because mercenaries can't resist cheating and so advertisers won't trust them (after being burned way too many times)

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1vuio0pswjnm7 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There are also multiple ways to avoid ads without "blocking"

Ingress and egress traffic is allowed, not blocked, but requests for ads, tracking, telemetry, etc., if any, fail

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traverseda 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you are using a real computer or can sideload apps.

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ofrzeta 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

For some definition of layman, I guess.