Turning off YouTube ads helps you overcome the problem of frequently encountering auto-playing ads that interrupt your viewing experience, ensuring you can enjoy your video without interruption.
Method 1: Use the Adblocks Plus app to turn off ads on YouTube.
If you are using the Google Chrome browser
Download and install the Adblock Plus add-on for YouTube on the Chrome browser.
Method 1: Download Adblock Plus for Chrome here
+ Method 2: Access the Chrome Web Store.
Step 1: Search for Adblock Plus in the "Search the Store" section.
Step 2: Click "Free" in the Adblock Plus add-on.
A pop-up window opens --> Add to install the add-on for Chrome.
- If you are using the Firefox browser
Step 1: Download Adblock Plus for Firefox here.
Step 2: A pop-up window will appear; click Install to install this add-on. Wait about 5 seconds --> Install Now
Step 3: Activate one or all three available functions:
- Malware Blocking: Blocks malware that may infect your system during web browsing.
- Remove Social Media Buttons : Prevents others from tracking your web browsing, similar to disabling the Remove button on Facebook.
- Disable Tracking: Disables ads on websites. If you want to disable ads on YouTube, select the Disable Tracking
function by clicking to switch from Off to On .
Method 2:
Step 1 : Log in to your Gmail account and access the YouTube website. Look at the top right and click on the account icon to access YouTube Settings (the gear icon).
Step 2 : In the new window that appears, click on Playback.
Step 3 : In the Playback interface, uncheck the box next to " Show annotations, channel promotions and interactive cards on videos" . Finally, click Save to save the settings. From now on, when watching videos on YouTube, you will no longer see annotations displayed on the screen.
With one of the two settings above, you can turn off annotations and ads that appear on YouTube videos. Now you can enjoy your videos without any problems.
For the Cốc Cốc browser, you can disable the feature that automatically opens ad tabs by following the article on blocking YouTube video ads on Cốc Cốc that Taimienphi shared in a previous article.