YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the Web and almost everyone has watched at least a few videos on YouTube. Like just about everything else on the Web, YouTube displays a lot of ads, with the videos. To get rid of them, you could pay for a YouTube Premium subscription or use some type of ad blocker, but there’s an insanely simple trick you can use to view YouTube videos without ads.<\/span><\/p>\n Getting rid of ads on YouTube videos is as easy as placing an extra period after the dot com part of any YouTube URL.<\/span><\/p>\n For instance, here’s a video of Dire Strait’s “Money for Nothing” with ads:<\/span><\/p>\n And here’s the same video without ads:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com.\/watch?v=JRDgihVDEko<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Do you see the difference? No? Look below.<\/span><\/p>\n When you add a period after .com of any YouTube video it prevents ads from displaying.<\/span><\/p>\n This trick works because it stops YouTube from normalizing the hostname, breaking a lot of things on a page, but still allowing the main content of a page to be displayed. One thing it breaks is YouTube ads. It’s more technical than that, but that’s the gist of it, and as long it works, who cares?<\/span><\/p>\n Keep in mind that ads support certain YouTube channels and if you want to support a favorite YouTube channel you might not want to stop the ads. And Google\/YouTube could find a way to stop this ad-killing method from working, but as of right now it works. And if it keeps working you can bet a few developers will be introducing browser extensions that add a dot after dot.com to prevent YouTube ads from displaying.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Crazy-Simple Trick to Remove Ads From YouTube Videos YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the Web and almost everyone has watched at least a few videos on YouTube. Like just about everything else on the Web, YouTube displays a lot of ads, with the videos. To get rid of them, you could\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,3953],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19526,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520\/revisions\/19526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JRDgihVDEko<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/youtubedot.png\")
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