I remember using it , and was pleasantly surprised it worled!
Wrote it down, and put it away somewhere?
In searching for it recently; I drew nothing but blanks.
It was the way in which you copied the URL; an order, that also removed some part[s]?
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a quick websearch shows> fyi: You can bypass youtube ads by adding a dot after the domain
On desktop browsers.
To follow up: I had initially assumed that it didn’t work on mobile because the browsers normalized the URL, however this isn’t the case. The redirection happens on the server side. So, if you want this to work on mobile browsers, use the “Request Desktop Site” feature.
For example,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuB8VUICGqc // will occasionally show ads
https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=DuB8VUICGqc // will not show ads
It’s a commonly forgotten edge case, websites forget to normalize the hostname, the content is still served, but there’s no hostname match on the browser so no cookies and broken CORS - and lots of bigger sites use a different domain to serve ads/media with a whitelist that doesn’t contain the extra dot
This works for many news websites as well serving paywalls, e.g.
https://www.nytimes.com./2020/06/09/us/george-floyd-who-is.html
but this is 6 years old. so i wonder…
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Hi Robert_Barricklow I think you just insert a hyphen between the t and u in the URL to , change the part/word youtube in the vid URL to be like this “yout-ube”
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When I watch Youtube on Firefox I get lots of ads. When I watch it on Brave, few if any. Try a different browser.
This sort of thing is like whack-a-mole…constantly changing with every software update.
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