This will be another entry in my "How to improve your website browsing experience" series.
I love Adblock Plus. Such a handy add-on, and its ease of use on Firefox is one of the main reasons I use Firefox over Chrome (along with a lot of other handy little add-ons). Youtube is a big reason I will definitely keep ABP on by default. There are just some channels that don't deserve the ad revenue, like those who monetize videos with ads longer than the actual video. Or supporting any monetized video from IGN.
However, over the last few years, Youtube has become a big thing for a lot of good channels who rely on the ad revenue. And unfortunately, for people like me, the negatives of whitelisting all of youtube outweigh the benefits of supporting channels I care about. So what I did before was middle-click the ABP icon when I was about to watch a video on a channel that I specifically wanted to support.
The problem with this method was that I didn't always remember to do so. Of course, it's the internet, I want that sweet instant gratification, even if some precious approved views to channels were going wasted.
Fairly new, only about a month old. It is a Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey script that modifies Adblock Plus. You can now whitelist channels with the following entry on Adblock Plus: @@|http://www.youtube.com/watch*user=CHANNELNAME
Replace CHANNELNAME with the Name of the Channel for example:
@@|http://www.youtube.com/watch*user=TotalHalibut
What this does is that it will partially load the video page and search for who the uploader is. If it is one of the channels you whitelisted, it will refresh the page with Adblock Plus disabled.
Some Whitelists I added: @@|http://www.youtube.com/watch*user=TotalHalibut ^ Total Biscuit's channel
4. Go to Filter Preferences on Adblock Plus and start adding your channel whitelists.
5. Start supporting your channels and watch their videos with the ads turned on.
I feel that this is a great way to support the channels you want to support, while leaving Adblock on for the rest of Youtube. If you truly feel a channel has earned you whitelisting it, you can now just add just that channel to a whitelist without having to whitelist all of youtube. While trying to remember to turn it of when if you want to support just that channel.
If you feel that channel is no longer uploading videos that deserve your approved view, you can just remove the whitelist entry for that channel. Some channels do work hard for their videos and approved views, so please consider whitelisting just those channels you feel deserve your support.
Other entries in my "How to improve your website browsing experience" series:
I don't know why no one commented on this, but it is a good way to support users on channels you feel deserve it. I haven't tested it out myself, but if this all works as to instructions it's a great guide, so thanks for writing it
On November 21 2013 04:43 DarkNetHunter wrote: I don't know why no one commented on this, but it is a good way to support users on channels you feel deserve it. I haven't tested it out myself, but if this all works as to instructions it's a great guide, so thanks for writing it
You're welcome. Glad somebody finally decided to comment. Almost gave up on this blog being interesting.
I have tried this on Chrome and the channels that I have white-listed still aren't playing ads (not that I actually want them... lol). Went into the "About" page on each profile and made sure to get the proper name.
On December 04 2013 18:20 theGlasswalker wrote: I have tried this on Chrome and the channels that I have white-listed still aren't playing ads (not that I actually want them... lol). Went into the "About" page on each profile and made sure to get the proper name.
Huh, was going through my blogs today and missed this comment. I guess I should have been transparent about the fact that I had not tested this for Chrome. Sorry about that, I posted assumed instructions for Chrome.
I primarily use Firefox, and it definitely works for Firefox.
Proleague needs your approved views. And I for one plan to do the VERY LEAST I can do and whitelist their streams. If I had a job, I would very much subscribe to their Twitch channel as well.
For twitch, either go to their twitch page (http://www.twitch.tv/sc2proleague), click the ABP icon, and select "Disable on this page only", or enter this filter into your ABP "Filter Preferences": @@|http://www.twitch.tv/sc2proleague|$document
For they are releasing Youtube Vods for free, thank goodness. That's how you get views GSTL. And they finally have a good caster for proleague in Wolf, meaning I will make sure to catch as many matches as I can. And because I want them to get my my approved views, I will be adding them to my whitelist.
Make sure to install the script, and then enter this whitelist filter into your filter preferences: @@|http://www.youtube.com/watch*user=ESportsTV
Do your part to support Proleague! If you're gonna watch their games, give them the ad revenue they deserve!
i literally joined this forum to say thank you i've been looking for a solution like this for quite awhile and using tampermonkey on chrome this script works like a charm.
On May 02 2014 11:33 livingretro79 wrote: i literally joined this forum to say thank you i've been looking for a solution like this for quite awhile and using tampermonkey on chrome this script works like a charm.
Wow, thanks a lot. Though, Youtube has clearly undergone some changes since I first posted this, and I stopped using it because I had to switch computers and never updated the script. Now, Userscripts.org has actually been down for the last 2 weeks, but I decided to search out what I could. I haven't really been into the Script scene ever since Userscripts.org went to hell and nothing but Spam could be found. But I've gotten back into exploring the old scripts that I used and trying to find ways to make them work.
Found the version 1.1 of the script who modified it to adapt to Youtube's new changes: http://pastebin.com/U1qghPSA#
var u = window.location.href; if(u.search("user=") == -1){ if (!! document.getElementById("ud")) { var user = document.getElementById("ud").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].getAttribute("href").split("/")[2]; window.location.href = u+"&user="+user; } else if (!! document.getElementById("body")) { user = document.getElementById("watch7-user-header").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].getAttribute("href").split("/")[2] window.location.href = u+"&user="+user; } else { alert('script failed'); }
}
I pasted it over my existing script and it worked. Kind of. See, Youtube seems to have modified how the channel links work in the videos. Take TotalBiscuit's latest video (as of May 19th):
Go to the actual video link on youtube and don't just watch the embed page here on Teamliquid, since I cannot guarantee it works the same way.
So the old ABP filter of @@|http://www.youtube.com/watch*user=TotalHalibut would no longer work, because TotalHalibut would no longer be identified in the link to the channel, which is the url the script generates.
However, those characters remain consistent throughout all videos, so now all you have to do is change the Adblock Plus Exception filter. Also, all the links now appear to be https, not just http, so make sure to change that as well.
So our new filter, from @@|http://www.youtube.com/watch*user=TotalHalibut
So this will require an extra step to get the script working. You will need to identify what the link url to their channel is in their video, but it does work consistently. I've tested it out and I can see video ads. I will be updating the OP with this information. a bit later.
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