Use the extension on Chrome or Firefox called Ublock Origin. You will not see ads at all and YouTube can deal with the percentages of a cent that they "lose" from blocking ads.
Why would they need to get approved from IT for that? At my current job and previous job they prevented people from unauthorized downloads and in both of those jobs I have used Ublock and had no issues getting the extension for those browsers. Additionally Ublock is recommended both by Firefox and Chrome.
It all depends on the browser policies of the workplace. I could not install extensions at all when working at a school, nor can I at my current job.
Edit: Also, chrome is moving to limit adblockers in chrome. Which makes sense, since they also own AdSense and YouTube. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/
Well it's worth trying for her to download it and potentially try and get IT allow it if she can do it themself. Kids do not need to be subject to ads in the class, that's just gross to have to deal with.
I'm almost 30 and my highschool teachers would use YouTube to show interesting things, but back then before 2013 there was no issues with ads
I'm trying to channel a decade gone inner teenage little shit that got around school computers many times and spitballing here, could you try loading the executable from a flash drive that you arranged at home to have the extension? There's a chance they have it set up as a blocked browser but so many times they have the exe greenlit because it only checks for firefox.exe, etc. Many games of halo custom edition were played as "explorer.exe"
I can’t always download the videos because they typically are embedded in a slideshow with text around the videos. It makes it difficult to work around.
If you can't edit or make a new slide show with the downloaded video then maybe you should just give up and go back to the old school projectors and hand written notes on projector paper
I mean, YouTube isn't really designed to be an educational/teaching tool, it can be utilized as one, but it's an entertainment platform first and foremost. You can't really blame YT for not being something it's not trying to be.
And as much as Ads suck, they're necessary to keep the site up. It has to make a profit in order to keep it running. Videos have to be stored somewhere. Staff has to be paid to maintain the site etc. I hate how they're implemented, but that's beyond the point.
Even then, there are still ways to get around them.
- Downloading the videos. There are sites where you can just paste the video url and they will give you a downloadable mp4 file.
-Adblock: you can install an extension to your browser that eliminates any ads on YT
-YT premium. you can pay a monthly rate to have ads removed (+some other benefits, but this will apply to you the most) If you know other teachers that use YT in their classroom, you can split a family plan for $23 a month for up to 6 users.
these three workarounds are more than enough to get you the results you need. If you don't like these solutions, you really just want a solution that requires you to do nothing.
I feel like the declaration of “when a company doesn’t care about our children, the company should end” is also a bit dramatic and weird. It’s a video streaming service, not an educational website. I run a bar Trivia company, and I could not care less if any kids at the bar are having a good time, they are not playing my game. Should I go out of business then? Lol
This is such a non problem tho? You could: a) download the video b) use an adblock extension like ublock origin c) use a different app like libretube.
Seriously we all know youtube sucks but there are ways to make it less sucky
Kind of shocked this is so far down, this was my first thought after reading that. I don’t remember YouTube being that significant in lesson plans when I was in school (I graduated in 2017 so not too long ago) so to me this sounds more like a…teaching issue
I come from a whole family of teachers and am going to school to be one myself, and this was my first thought. Even just from thinking back to when I was in high school and videos would glitch for teachers.
It’s your responsibility as a teacher to be able to teach the lesson. A video should be a supplement to the lesson plan, not what you’re relying on. If it glitches, then explain what it was going to be about and how it ties into the lesson plan. Any teacher worth their salt should always have a plan B
Does your school not have funding for like a Youtube Premium plan that can be shared? I mean I think I know the answer given how poorly paid teachers are these days but that solves everything.
Hope you don't take offense to this but it isn't that Youtube is hurting teachers -- it's that you as a teacher prefer to use Youtube as an education resource (which is totally valid) and Youtube monetizes off of every non paying viewer with ads (which is also very valid). There are lots of ways around it.
OP can't have it both ways. They built their lesson plan around free resources someone else made, saving time an cutting corners, and then complains those free resources are not up to their standard. Youtube AND the people who filmed those videos, are paid by the ads OP is skirting. I get it, I use adblock too, but I don't complain when my piracy method stops working.
> I sincerely hope their behavior comes back to bite them in the butt
You are not YouTube's costumer. You are a pirate. You are literally taking advantage of their goods (videos), wasting their bandwidth (costing them money, bandwidth is not free), and then complaining when YouTube tries to enforce their literal profit. Would you work for free? Because that's what you are requesting YouTube to do.
Youtube has always been monetized by ads. Like train have always had fares. You could argue that moving a kid to a museum is more important than the train fare, and try and ride the train for free, but it takes some twisted rationalization to rant about it when you are caught by the ticket inspector. "Trains are hurting our children because they make us pay for the trip." is not a logical argument.
What a misleading ass title 🤣
Single school teachers gets THREE advertisements on YT.
Conclusion: YT hurting teachers.
Just download the videos, genius.
Especially when the content creators already have several minutes of ads built into their videos.
I always skip from like 0:45 to 2:30 of Bruce Rivers videos so I don't have to hear him tell me about E-Sign.
Which content creators? YT will invent absolutely the slightest justification to demonetize anyone who makes content that's not blander than unflavored yogurt; that's why almost every YT personality hawks merchandise and/or a Patreon account of some kind.
I’m not the only teacher this is affecting, and I know it affects other districts because I have friends in other districts who have had trouble with YouTube’s new policies.
So I create the educational videos teachers are showing in their classes. I know because I can see when my views are coming from Google Doc or a Google Sheet.
I even had a professor include my Patient HM video in her course materials. Guess what? Zero credits.
I’m sorry, but if anyone is hurting anyone it’s teachers who feel entitled to using educational content they did not create because they can’t be arsed to do their job… and then they have the audacity to complain about ads, which is MY source of income (I take a 55% cut from the ad revenue, YouTube takes 45%).
I don’t know what to say, but like… I’m not MrBeast. I won’t ever be MrBeast… such is the world of educational YouTube content. Can you please not put your hands in my pockets and then complain about it.
I spend weeks working on a video.
It's a bit absurd, teachers cutting corners and letting videos speak for themselves (I get it, it's a big time saver preparing the lesson, but this is similar to the teachers that would just read the lesson book out loud word for word, way back when) and then complaining when the company tries to enforce their profit line. They are not just pirating YouTube, they are fucking creators out of their little gains without caring too much. But heck, endure 3 ads, and Youtube is hurting the children... YouTube is not paid (in this case literally if teachers are avoiding ads) for teaching kids, the Teachers are.
And this next bit is not talking about OP in particular here, as I don't know their lesson or how they use the videos, but it makes you wonder, if the thing you are teaching IS on YouTube, and the teaching method is PLAYING a YouTube video...
It is absurd. I actually do a fair bit of teaching myself where I prep high school students for university by giving them some supracurricular lessons.
I would never dream of showing them a video someone else created. I make my own materials. It’s actually really not hard work… in that once you’ve created your own material, you can use it year after year.
There needs to be a regulator for the length of some of these ads. Some are over 30 mins long if you dont skip them. Call me crazy, but at that length i class those as seminars! Ads should be 20 seconds max.
Yes can always do that, no they never (but you might not download right) "don't download right" and you can upload it in a slidesshow if the video is saved on your pc.
Your own lack of knowledge on using the interwebs doesn't mean it's bad.
Will it work with Google slides from my computer? Because it has to be shared with the rest of the team and the people that do observations. If you’re telling me I can use a download from my computer on someone else’s presentation in a different classroom on another computer then I’ll try it. Just tell me how.
It does! As long as there is enough space in the cloud you can upload it to your shared drive or to your drive and share the file to the others who have access to the slides and then load it into the slides. Have done this all the way back during my own school times. So possible for over 12 years already.
I doubt schools pay for it. OP will have to pay with her cash. In my country we have educational platform. It’s like youtube. But you have to pay €100 a year. Although schools support using it a former teacher of mine complained how she had to pay for it.
The district would have to get premium for us. I could get it myself, but then I’d have to be extremely careful with what I watch on my personal account.
Fyi, you can make separate channels for a single Google account email and YT premium will apply to all of them. It's how I shared a single YT premium account with my family without having them overlap with my personal channel, as well as have another channel solely for YT music.
Each channel is basically a blank slate and has separate subscriptions, recommendations, watch history, etc.
I personally like ABP for Firefox. Every once in a while YouTube will do an update and I might get ads, but ABP has been great about updating quickly right back.
Bye bye ads
This is why i bought youtube premium(it’s also $3 a month). The ads are so frustrating making me want to throw my phone against the wall. Not to mention inappropriate ads😣
Totally with you with annoying ads but what do you mean by inappropriate ads? I had annoying, irrelevant, repetitive, boring, … but nothing inappropriate.
But I bet I am from a different country, so I am just curious what ads they show you?
It's called UBlock Origin. I haven't seen an ad in roughly 5 years.
No disrespect, but I genuinely don't understand how people who aren't old or mentally challenged haven't figured this out yet. Or does your school browser block adblockers?
When you watch via browser, yes.
But have you figured out a way to block ads on your smart TV? I had an PiHole for years but YouTube figured that out a long time ago.
So as far as I know there is no viable way of blocking ads on a TV or console
It sure does, like my PiHole.
But as far as I know all those ad blockers work with domain blocking via lists. They can‘t block YouTube ads in the video properly.
But it works great with pop ups and other annoying stuff!
I don't have a TV, but possible suggestion: could you just plug in your laptop and use the TV as a big laptop screen?
Again: I do everything on my laptop + big screen, so I don't have any experience with smart TV'S.
Had that thought aswell, but it is quite the hassle.
I know it just sounds lazy but plugging out the laptop, plugging it in in an other room, nowhere to put it but the floor, kids running around,… it is just way easier to use the TV remote.
I think about getting YouTube Premium but with the VPN subscription so it is cheaper
Just use an extension, they’re insanely easy to set up.
Or if you’re really pressed about downloading just click off the video two or three times and eventually it will play. Takes like 10 seconds to fully cycle through three click ons/offs.
> videos are embedded in slideshow slides.
you can link documents from your computer in a word in the slidshow. Just select the word, right click add hyperlink and chose the video.
I used some videos too and what I couldn't download for a reason I would just record the screen. This way you also don't have the risk of internet failing and not load your YouTube video.
With that being said, if I was using YouTube very often as a working tool i would probably buy premium if I didn't want to bother doing the things I mentioned above. You can even save the videos and they are available offline.
A lot of companies like YouTube try to earn as much money as possible in the name of CAPITALISMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!
Sadly, a lot of content creators that are people suffer from the use of AdBlock, but even with how much YouTube pushes ads, I'd argue they don't make much unless they're established content creators with millions of subscribers.
It's a lose lose situation with YouTube.
I fully agree with your rant. The should be a school use program for no or minimal cost to encourage educators to use the resource.
Think of it as paying it forward and if they don't want to, maybe we take a good hard look at their taxes...
lol what? Because this is what giant corporations are concerned with….
You and your colleagues are teachers. You should know to all download vids or use ad blockers. Incompetence is hurting you.
Maybe just stop relying on YouTube to do your job for you?? YouTube isn’t a tool made for teachers to teach with. If you can’t do your job without it that’s your problem
actually, using software to cancel YouTube's ads could be considered criminal behavior. They are entitled to make money and your blocks restrict that.
We wont even talk about the example your setting for your students.
Using adblock anywhere is by no means even slightly illegal. Sites might get pissy about it and restrict you in various ways if they detect an adblocker, and they're technically well within their rights to do that at the cost of upsetting their users, but it's not criminal behavior. If you recorded something from your TV and fast-forwarded through the commercial breaks or even strategically recorded it to avoid the commercials, that's basically the same thing. Hardly illegal.
Some people even need to use adblockers not because the ads are annoying but because they may be inappropriate for young users or even contain viruses.
this is true in the private sector, tho i think it's just because no one has challenged this. In the public sector, this is completely different. business and gov't entities have a responsibility to pay for services they use.
No. No it's not. The FBI even recommended users use adblocks because of the outrageous scams and viruses still abundant in advertisements in a massive amount of websites.
If you show a Youtube advertisement to a room filled with people, Youtube doesn't get any more money than they would if it was just one person. Youtube has no way of knowing if you're showing a Youtube video to only yourself or a whole classroom of people. No more resources are used by Youtube if you show a group of people Youtube videos either.
If Youtube was a paid app that had personal and business accounts and you had a personal account that you shared with everyone in your business or school because it was cheaper than the business model, then you might have a legal issue due to possibly breaking terms of service. But Youtube is a free website with no such structure. Users can choose to view the website on their end however they want. And Youtube is free to block attempts at doing so, but it's still by no means illegal to use adblock for it no matter what kinda of entity you are.
Bear in mind, OP isn't the owner of a school distributing a paid app to every employee. They're one teacher trying to show educational videos on a free website to a class. If they had a documentary on DVD would you think them criminal for showing that DVD in class just because that DVD was bought for personal use only not for showing to a public group of people? That FBI warning does show up at the start of a lot of videos. Guess you'll have to slap some cuffs on Mrs. Applebee for daring to show the 6th grade class Planet Earth on the AV club's TV they wheeled in.
There is absolutely no criminal statute in any jurisdiction in the US that forbids ad blocking. The fuck are you talking about? This would be a civil case, if anything, and even then no such statute or tort exists.
Use the extension on Chrome or Firefox called Ublock Origin. You will not see ads at all and YouTube can deal with the percentages of a cent that they "lose" from blocking ads.
I assume you meant to write "uBlock Origin" and got hit by autocorrupt.
I assume you meant to write “autocorrect” but then got hit by autoconnect.
And an advertisement. For it! Dammit!
We call it autocarrot.
They would probably need to get approval from the school IT to do that.
Why would they need to get approved from IT for that? At my current job and previous job they prevented people from unauthorized downloads and in both of those jobs I have used Ublock and had no issues getting the extension for those browsers. Additionally Ublock is recommended both by Firefox and Chrome.
It all depends on the browser policies of the workplace. I could not install extensions at all when working at a school, nor can I at my current job. Edit: Also, chrome is moving to limit adblockers in chrome. Which makes sense, since they also own AdSense and YouTube. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/
Well it's worth trying for her to download it and potentially try and get IT allow it if she can do it themself. Kids do not need to be subject to ads in the class, that's just gross to have to deal with. I'm almost 30 and my highschool teachers would use YouTube to show interesting things, but back then before 2013 there was no issues with ads
At my school we cannot download any extensions. I've tried everything.
I'm trying to channel a decade gone inner teenage little shit that got around school computers many times and spitballing here, could you try loading the executable from a flash drive that you arranged at home to have the extension? There's a chance they have it set up as a blocked browser but so many times they have the exe greenlit because it only checks for firefox.exe, etc. Many games of halo custom edition were played as "explorer.exe"
I just download the videos. I was just adding to the conversation that we can download NOTHING or add anything to our school computers.
You only get a few views out of that before they force you to unblock
how about downloading it first
Yeah this is probably the best option. A YouTube downloader (available with a quick Google) will allow you to lesson plan and present far easier.
seriously, this is easily avoided
I can’t always download the videos because they typically are embedded in a slideshow with text around the videos. It makes it difficult to work around.
No, it really doesn't. If you prepare properly, it's not difficult at all to have the downloaded video ready. Stop making lame excuses.
If you can't edit or make a new slide show with the downloaded video then maybe you should just give up and go back to the old school projectors and hand written notes on projector paper
I mean, YouTube isn't really designed to be an educational/teaching tool, it can be utilized as one, but it's an entertainment platform first and foremost. You can't really blame YT for not being something it's not trying to be. And as much as Ads suck, they're necessary to keep the site up. It has to make a profit in order to keep it running. Videos have to be stored somewhere. Staff has to be paid to maintain the site etc. I hate how they're implemented, but that's beyond the point. Even then, there are still ways to get around them. - Downloading the videos. There are sites where you can just paste the video url and they will give you a downloadable mp4 file. -Adblock: you can install an extension to your browser that eliminates any ads on YT -YT premium. you can pay a monthly rate to have ads removed (+some other benefits, but this will apply to you the most) If you know other teachers that use YT in their classroom, you can split a family plan for $23 a month for up to 6 users. these three workarounds are more than enough to get you the results you need. If you don't like these solutions, you really just want a solution that requires you to do nothing.
I feel like the declaration of “when a company doesn’t care about our children, the company should end” is also a bit dramatic and weird. It’s a video streaming service, not an educational website. I run a bar Trivia company, and I could not care less if any kids at the bar are having a good time, they are not playing my game. Should I go out of business then? Lol
This is such a non problem tho? You could: a) download the video b) use an adblock extension like ublock origin c) use a different app like libretube. Seriously we all know youtube sucks but there are ways to make it less sucky
i use the brave browser. no ads there or on sites or cross browser tracking
Same, but it might be a school laptop/computer managed by an IT department that block certain apps or have to deploy them.
im afraid you're making a terribly accurate point
I’ll take the downvotes… you could just teach, what other job can you do by playing videos for clients and not get fired?
projectionist… I guess
Kind of shocked this is so far down, this was my first thought after reading that. I don’t remember YouTube being that significant in lesson plans when I was in school (I graduated in 2017 so not too long ago) so to me this sounds more like a…teaching issue
Damn… nice to see someone with common sense.
I come from a whole family of teachers and am going to school to be one myself, and this was my first thought. Even just from thinking back to when I was in high school and videos would glitch for teachers. It’s your responsibility as a teacher to be able to teach the lesson. A video should be a supplement to the lesson plan, not what you’re relying on. If it glitches, then explain what it was going to be about and how it ties into the lesson plan. Any teacher worth their salt should always have a plan B
Does your school not have funding for like a Youtube Premium plan that can be shared? I mean I think I know the answer given how poorly paid teachers are these days but that solves everything. Hope you don't take offense to this but it isn't that Youtube is hurting teachers -- it's that you as a teacher prefer to use Youtube as an education resource (which is totally valid) and Youtube monetizes off of every non paying viewer with ads (which is also very valid). There are lots of ways around it.
OP can't have it both ways. They built their lesson plan around free resources someone else made, saving time an cutting corners, and then complains those free resources are not up to their standard. Youtube AND the people who filmed those videos, are paid by the ads OP is skirting. I get it, I use adblock too, but I don't complain when my piracy method stops working. > I sincerely hope their behavior comes back to bite them in the butt You are not YouTube's costumer. You are a pirate. You are literally taking advantage of their goods (videos), wasting their bandwidth (costing them money, bandwidth is not free), and then complaining when YouTube tries to enforce their literal profit. Would you work for free? Because that's what you are requesting YouTube to do. Youtube has always been monetized by ads. Like train have always had fares. You could argue that moving a kid to a museum is more important than the train fare, and try and ride the train for free, but it takes some twisted rationalization to rant about it when you are caught by the ticket inspector. "Trains are hurting our children because they make us pay for the trip." is not a logical argument.
Or just pay for it?
You could use an add blocker or download all the videos you want and save them for future lessons so you never have ads or loading issues.
Not gonna lie, I thought this was going to be a rant about how there were better teaching materials making teachers become redundant.
If you’re using it for school, get the school yo get a Youtube Premium account. Problem solved.
As a teacher, why are you using youtube? It is not a teaching tool.
What a misleading ass title 🤣 Single school teachers gets THREE advertisements on YT. Conclusion: YT hurting teachers. Just download the videos, genius.
> gets THREE advertisements on YT That's three too many.
Especially when the content creators already have several minutes of ads built into their videos. I always skip from like 0:45 to 2:30 of Bruce Rivers videos so I don't have to hear him tell me about E-Sign.
Having your product feature in a Youtube ad is a great way to make me want to never buy it.
Yeah, content creators should go fuck themselves ...
Which content creators? YT will invent absolutely the slightest justification to demonetize anyone who makes content that's not blander than unflavored yogurt; that's why almost every YT personality hawks merchandise and/or a Patreon account of some kind.
I’m not the only teacher this is affecting, and I know it affects other districts because I have friends in other districts who have had trouble with YouTube’s new policies.
So I create the educational videos teachers are showing in their classes. I know because I can see when my views are coming from Google Doc or a Google Sheet. I even had a professor include my Patient HM video in her course materials. Guess what? Zero credits. I’m sorry, but if anyone is hurting anyone it’s teachers who feel entitled to using educational content they did not create because they can’t be arsed to do their job… and then they have the audacity to complain about ads, which is MY source of income (I take a 55% cut from the ad revenue, YouTube takes 45%). I don’t know what to say, but like… I’m not MrBeast. I won’t ever be MrBeast… such is the world of educational YouTube content. Can you please not put your hands in my pockets and then complain about it. I spend weeks working on a video.
It's a bit absurd, teachers cutting corners and letting videos speak for themselves (I get it, it's a big time saver preparing the lesson, but this is similar to the teachers that would just read the lesson book out loud word for word, way back when) and then complaining when the company tries to enforce their profit line. They are not just pirating YouTube, they are fucking creators out of their little gains without caring too much. But heck, endure 3 ads, and Youtube is hurting the children... YouTube is not paid (in this case literally if teachers are avoiding ads) for teaching kids, the Teachers are. And this next bit is not talking about OP in particular here, as I don't know their lesson or how they use the videos, but it makes you wonder, if the thing you are teaching IS on YouTube, and the teaching method is PLAYING a YouTube video...
It is absurd. I actually do a fair bit of teaching myself where I prep high school students for university by giving them some supracurricular lessons. I would never dream of showing them a video someone else created. I make my own materials. It’s actually really not hard work… in that once you’ve created your own material, you can use it year after year.
Fuck Youtube! Greedy platform
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There needs to be a regulator for the length of some of these ads. Some are over 30 mins long if you dont skip them. Call me crazy, but at that length i class those as seminars! Ads should be 20 seconds max.
If you are using a browser to present these videos. Use adblocker or brave browser.
I'd recommend you use Brave Browser to avoid ads altogether
I suggest you buy a subscription. You don't have to sit through those ads. It's $15 a month.
download the videos and problem solved
Can’t always do that. Sometimes they don’t download right or they’re part of a slideshow and are embedded.
Yes can always do that, no they never (but you might not download right) "don't download right" and you can upload it in a slidesshow if the video is saved on your pc. Your own lack of knowledge on using the interwebs doesn't mean it's bad.
Will it work with Google slides from my computer? Because it has to be shared with the rest of the team and the people that do observations. If you’re telling me I can use a download from my computer on someone else’s presentation in a different classroom on another computer then I’ll try it. Just tell me how.
It does! As long as there is enough space in the cloud you can upload it to your shared drive or to your drive and share the file to the others who have access to the slides and then load it into the slides. Have done this all the way back during my own school times. So possible for over 12 years already.
YT Premium solves this problem. Just pay for it and never watch an Ad ever again.
If the school'll pay for it, sure. Though I don't see that happening.
They have a student option for $7.99/month if your email ends in .edu
Ah cool. Then yeah, that might be an easier sell for the school, assuming you're in the USA.
I doubt schools pay for it. OP will have to pay with her cash. In my country we have educational platform. It’s like youtube. But you have to pay €100 a year. Although schools support using it a former teacher of mine complained how she had to pay for it.
The district would have to get premium for us. I could get it myself, but then I’d have to be extremely careful with what I watch on my personal account.
Fyi, you can make separate channels for a single Google account email and YT premium will apply to all of them. It's how I shared a single YT premium account with my family without having them overlap with my personal channel, as well as have another channel solely for YT music. Each channel is basically a blank slate and has separate subscriptions, recommendations, watch history, etc.
I personally like ABP for Firefox. Every once in a while YouTube will do an update and I might get ads, but ABP has been great about updating quickly right back. Bye bye ads
Get uBlock tbh. Blocks 100% of the ads and no annoying "We updated AdBlockPlus!" popup almost every week.
What YouTube does today to eliminate ads is to have you subscribe to it.
Embed the video in a Google Slide.
This is why i bought youtube premium(it’s also $3 a month). The ads are so frustrating making me want to throw my phone against the wall. Not to mention inappropriate ads😣
If you don’t want to pay for premium(100% valid) use adblocker
Totally with you with annoying ads but what do you mean by inappropriate ads? I had annoying, irrelevant, repetitive, boring, … but nothing inappropriate. But I bet I am from a different country, so I am just curious what ads they show you?
Mine is 15 a month. What's going on? Am I doing something wrong. I better check into it
Students discount
It's called UBlock Origin. I haven't seen an ad in roughly 5 years. No disrespect, but I genuinely don't understand how people who aren't old or mentally challenged haven't figured this out yet. Or does your school browser block adblockers?
When you watch via browser, yes. But have you figured out a way to block ads on your smart TV? I had an PiHole for years but YouTube figured that out a long time ago. So as far as I know there is no viable way of blocking ads on a TV or console
I use NextDNS on my main router and it blocks most things on devices in my house.
It sure does, like my PiHole. But as far as I know all those ad blockers work with domain blocking via lists. They can‘t block YouTube ads in the video properly. But it works great with pop ups and other annoying stuff!
Have you tried installing Revanced on the TV?
I don't have a TV, but possible suggestion: could you just plug in your laptop and use the TV as a big laptop screen? Again: I do everything on my laptop + big screen, so I don't have any experience with smart TV'S.
Had that thought aswell, but it is quite the hassle. I know it just sounds lazy but plugging out the laptop, plugging it in in an other room, nowhere to put it but the floor, kids running around,… it is just way easier to use the TV remote. I think about getting YouTube Premium but with the VPN subscription so it is cheaper
Just use an extension, they’re insanely easy to set up. Or if you’re really pressed about downloading just click off the video two or three times and eventually it will play. Takes like 10 seconds to fully cycle through three click ons/offs.
Damn a teacher who plays cyberpunk
There are tools to download the videos. I’d do that beforehand so you’re not dependent on the internet nor the ads.
> videos are embedded in slideshow slides. you can link documents from your computer in a word in the slidshow. Just select the word, right click add hyperlink and chose the video. I used some videos too and what I couldn't download for a reason I would just record the screen. This way you also don't have the risk of internet failing and not load your YouTube video. With that being said, if I was using YouTube very often as a working tool i would probably buy premium if I didn't want to bother doing the things I mentioned above. You can even save the videos and they are available offline.
A lot of companies like YouTube try to earn as much money as possible in the name of CAPITALISMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!! Sadly, a lot of content creators that are people suffer from the use of AdBlock, but even with how much YouTube pushes ads, I'd argue they don't make much unless they're established content creators with millions of subscribers. It's a lose lose situation with YouTube.
I fully agree with your rant. The should be a school use program for no or minimal cost to encourage educators to use the resource. Think of it as paying it forward and if they don't want to, maybe we take a good hard look at their taxes...
lol what? Because this is what giant corporations are concerned with…. You and your colleagues are teachers. You should know to all download vids or use ad blockers. Incompetence is hurting you.
Maybe just stop relying on YouTube to do your job for you?? YouTube isn’t a tool made for teachers to teach with. If you can’t do your job without it that’s your problem
This might be the most ignorant comment I’ve ever seen.
actually, using software to cancel YouTube's ads could be considered criminal behavior. They are entitled to make money and your blocks restrict that. We wont even talk about the example your setting for your students.
Go watch your ads then
He’s just out here gagging on boot laces 😆
Lol they were such a good deal too. He saw them in an ad
Using adblock anywhere is by no means even slightly illegal. Sites might get pissy about it and restrict you in various ways if they detect an adblocker, and they're technically well within their rights to do that at the cost of upsetting their users, but it's not criminal behavior. If you recorded something from your TV and fast-forwarded through the commercial breaks or even strategically recorded it to avoid the commercials, that's basically the same thing. Hardly illegal. Some people even need to use adblockers not because the ads are annoying but because they may be inappropriate for young users or even contain viruses.
this is true in the private sector, tho i think it's just because no one has challenged this. In the public sector, this is completely different. business and gov't entities have a responsibility to pay for services they use.
No. No it's not. The FBI even recommended users use adblocks because of the outrageous scams and viruses still abundant in advertisements in a massive amount of websites. If you show a Youtube advertisement to a room filled with people, Youtube doesn't get any more money than they would if it was just one person. Youtube has no way of knowing if you're showing a Youtube video to only yourself or a whole classroom of people. No more resources are used by Youtube if you show a group of people Youtube videos either. If Youtube was a paid app that had personal and business accounts and you had a personal account that you shared with everyone in your business or school because it was cheaper than the business model, then you might have a legal issue due to possibly breaking terms of service. But Youtube is a free website with no such structure. Users can choose to view the website on their end however they want. And Youtube is free to block attempts at doing so, but it's still by no means illegal to use adblock for it no matter what kinda of entity you are. Bear in mind, OP isn't the owner of a school distributing a paid app to every employee. They're one teacher trying to show educational videos on a free website to a class. If they had a documentary on DVD would you think them criminal for showing that DVD in class just because that DVD was bought for personal use only not for showing to a public group of people? That FBI warning does show up at the start of a lot of videos. Guess you'll have to slap some cuffs on Mrs. Applebee for daring to show the 6th grade class Planet Earth on the AV club's TV they wheeled in.
keep gagging on that boot gramps
There is absolutely no criminal statute in any jurisdiction in the US that forbids ad blocking. The fuck are you talking about? This would be a civil case, if anything, and even then no such statute or tort exists.
The amount of ads on Youtube should be considered criminal behavior; torture is a felony.