Honestly it is so embarrassing to still see insta/fb ads on YouTube in 2026

yes, it is really embarrassing if i'm a company and my product is known world widely and almost everyone use it and know it, why do i've to promote it? I know people are using it. Like why does META still have ads "hey download fb/insta it's so much fun yeeey!!". I've both. I use Facebook occasionally for university (i'll finally delete it cz i'm about to graduate), but Instagram like daily and from time to time i take a break. (i'll delete it too for a year or more, until i feel i'm mentally okay)

I've Brave on both my phone and pc, so I didn't see YouTube ads or any ads for like 4 years. i only listen to music when I study or workout, and it's on my pc. it's much more comfortable. basically i use my pc for most of things that i can do on my phone, but i really don't like to hold my phone for hours (using my pc reduced my doom scrolling from hours to a couple of minutes, you can also download extensions to block things you don't wanna see on social media and YT. I only have Insta on my phone)

In the last few days, i started to put some YT mixes on my phone when i'm working out. but just because brave is so slow when it comes to mixes I use the main YT app. so i saw ads for the first time in my 4-5 years. It's really weird and annoying to see ads. Even tough I'm a marketing student myself, I just hate them, ads are so cringe. Most of the ads are just Insta/Facebook. Which is more cringe. Like why the heck do we need to see them, everyone in the world know these apps, and most of young people use it. it even push me even more to use less Instagram on my phone. I've never see an ad for twitter for example, I've been using twitter since i'm 15, it's my first social media actually, it's not addicting, comfi, and just chilling. Unlike insta/fb, they're so annoying, the users, the content, reels, dead repetitive content, ads... and everyone just use them, so why do we need to see ads to download it, their marketing department is so stupid and uncreative. They're just wasting huge money to promote their apps.

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Toutube premium subscription raise

I was really annoyed by Google's latest subscription price increase, but I still want to use its services.

So I thought, "Why not cancel the subscription, use YouTube with an ad blocker for a month or two, and then subscribe again? The money I save will basically pay for the price hike."

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Is anyone else getting tired of YT ads lately?

Hi, whenever I watch a video, I've been seeing ads pop up quite often, sometimes with multiple ads in a row. So I wanted to ask, is anyone else also getting tired of YT ads lately? Or is there a way to reduce the number of ads on YT?

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How i can block ads on apps on my redmi phone!!

The ads are all over my apps even system apps which is annoying and wasting my time , for example i go to see my pictures on my device app it shows ads

And in evey app , i want to block them all !!

Any help please 🥺

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Built-in vs Extension based Blocking

I think browsers that can implement blocking(ads, travkers, other stuffs) built into the browser (like brave) are the future as MV2 is deprecated and the web moves in the direction chromium moves. Manifest V2 Extensions are Removed from chrome web store with the support also being removed from the chromium source. This is going to eventually effect all the chromium based browsers like (Brave, Edge, Opera). I think it's time for these browser to intergate internal ad-blocking feature built into the browser. What do you guys think? submitted by /u/tzshuhag [link] [comments]

Annoying youtube popup I cant get rid off

https://preview.redd.it/59hrcv251cph1.png?width=1114&format=png&auto=webp&s=689990fafa9e244aa47968ca6c1875594b21da3b so around 3 days ago this popup came back for me I didn't change anything recently so idk why it happened I tried getting rid of it using many methods like downloading extensions to block this popup in particular like plunger and it worked for less than a day and now I just get a black screen while using it, also I didn't see anyone else complaining that this popup is back so I don't know if its just me or more people. submitted by /u/Lumpy-Independent215 [link] [comments]

Is it just me, or is Google getting aggressive with Adblockers?

For several months, I had my AdGuard configured, and everything was perfect. I even disabled automatic iOS updates and app update updates so there wouldn’t be any unpleasant surprises.

Then out of nowhere, the whole layout of YouTube changed, and now they are redirecting me to the mobile site. They won’t even honor my request for the desktop site.

When using Safari, Firefox, or Brave, the YouTube layout is ABSOLUTELY RETARDED, with many features missing such as live chat, strange artifacts on the screen, buttons you can’t click on… It’s unbelievably crippled.

Google is intentionally doing this, right? They’re trying to force us into using the YouTube app or Chrome- where you have to watch ads.

I have two iPads. One is running iPadOS 18 and the other one is iPadOS 26. Both started doing the exact same thing about a month ago. Please tell me I’m an idiot and I just need to press some button and everything will be fine again.

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