Ads on YouTube 5000T

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  • #22138
    Anonymous
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    I can watch hours of live YouTube video from webcams on my Win 10 laptop with Firefox without any ad appearing. However, if I cast old Eggheads episodes from my tablet to my 5000T, I am now getting about three lots of ads in 30 minutes. This has only started in the last couple of weeks.

    Is there any obvious way to stop this from happening?

    #107396
    Anonymous
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    I suspect that the reason this is happening is because the 5000T is not using any adblock features. Is there a way of doing that?

    I disabled adblock on YouTube on the laptop and Eggheads had ads there as well, though I still didn’t see any when watching ships in Portsmouth harbour.

    #107397
    Anonymous
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    No reason to suspect, that is the reason.

    The only way to get rid of ads on the 5000t will almost certainly be to subscribe to YouTube Premium.

    #107398
    Anonymous
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    OK, thanks for that.

    Oh well, hopefully I will be able to avoid YouTube for Eggheads soon when the new series starts on Ch 5 (no date yet announced).

    #107399
    Anonymous
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    You could look into running an adblocker on your router directly, this might be a solution for all devices on your network.

    https://www.instructables.com/Block-Ads-With-Your-Router-Using-Ad-blocking-DNS-S/#:~:text=Ad%20blocking%20extensions%20are%20great,Hulu

    #107400
    Anonymous
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    Thanks, but reading that seems to mean that I would then be unable to selectively unblock on specific sites, which would also be a pain.

    Oh well, never mind.

    #107401
    Anonymous
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    If your TV and laptop have a screen share function, try using that instead of Chromecast. That way you will be seeing exactly the same as your laptop.

    #107402
    Anonymous
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    No they don’t. I thought of using HDMI, but it seems a bit of a performance swapping cables around and having to have the laptop balanced precariously in an unusual place.

    #107403
    Anonymous
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    I went for the upgraded version (free trial for a month) and so had no ads yesterday. Might only pay for one month then cancel as I should have no further need for it by then.

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