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Jaffa.
Jaffa. Posts: 1,193 Forumite
edited 30 May 2009 at 11:49AM in Techie Stuff
I'm trying to find out what the URL is for them ads that pop-up at the bottom about 5 seconds into playing a video on youtube? I would like to try and block them via Open DNS, I know TubeStop blocks them but I want to use Open DNS so I don;t have to go round installing it onto every computer in the house.

Thanks! :D

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  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    There are ads on YouTube?
  • gaming_guy
    gaming_guy Posts: 6,128 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Marty_J wrote: »
    There are ads on YouTube?
    there has been for months :)
  • Jaffa.
    Jaffa. Posts: 1,193 Forumite
    Yeah at the bottom of the screen on the video, 'YouTube’s New Inline Ads'
  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    Well this is odd, I don't think I've ever noticed one before, and I use YouTube quite frequently.

    Do you have a link to a video with an ad?
  • samhale
    samhale Posts: 413 Forumite
    Marty_J wrote: »
    Well this is odd, I don't think I've ever noticed one before, and I use YouTube quite frequently.

    Do you have a link to a video with an ad?
    Sublmininal Advertising ;)
  • muffinhead
    muffinhead Posts: 697 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I use the Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox and I've never noticed the ads that you mention so that could be one way of getting rid of them.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
  • Jaffa.
    Jaffa. Posts: 1,193 Forumite
    Marty_J wrote: »
    Well this is odd, I don't think I've ever noticed one before, and I use YouTube quite frequently.

    Do you have a link to a video with an ad?

    Yeah clicky and watch the 61 things on my cat video.

    oj2tyu.png
    Thats what I see...

    Theres a nother one too thats some big green thing and it's more centered and not transparent but I cant find any now I'm looking for em. Still, I'd like to stop them from popping up if possible =]
  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    edited 30 May 2009 at 11:43PM
    Here's what I see with Safari on my Mac and AdBlock installed:

    20090530-9w5f19whxh6t1nd2pwsbyaw3e.jpg

    I've never seen an ad as in your screenshot before. I think AdBlock uses this list, so blocking one of the items on there is stopping the ads from being displayed on YouTube videos.
  • samhale
    samhale Posts: 413 Forumite
    I got an advert at 12 seconds. There appears to be a little red mark under the timeline at 12 seconds when the advert appears.
  • Jaffa.
    Jaffa. Posts: 1,193 Forumite
    edited 31 May 2009 at 11:18AM
    It's googlesyndication.com I'm ad free!! woo woo

    I'm guessing google-analytics.com and googleadservices.com too
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