This Trick Can Make You Watch YouTube Ad-free

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JAKARTA - Often when we watch video content on YouTube, there are several pop-up ads that often appear suddenly. Some of them cannot even be discarded, this is of course disturbing the enjoyment of watching YouTube.

But recently, Reddit users have managed to find bugs or security holes from displaying advertisements on YouTube. As a result, pop-up ads can be lost, by inserting a period after ".com" in the video URL to "youtube.com./video".

This YouTube bug was discovered by a Reddit user named u / unicorn4sale. Through this URL writing format, YouTube users can watch content without being distracted by advertisements at all.

"This is a trivial problem that may be overlooked on websites, when normalizing the hostname of the content that is displayed. So that sometimes there is a mismatch between the hostname in the browser with cookies and CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing). Especially on the domain of sites that serve advertisements or media in a lot of numbers, "Unicorn4sale wrote as quoted by Metro UK, Monday, June 15.

In testing, this bug can work to remove YouTube ads on most browsers such as Google Chrome, Android Mobile and Microsoft Edge and Safari. Unfortunately this trick doesn't work on the Firefox browser, where entering this symbol will only return the user to the YouTube homepage.

Of course, if YouTube hears of these findings, it will immediately fix this security gap quickly. Given that YouTube's revenue comes from ad impressions.

YouTube itself is a video sharing platform that can be accessed for free. But instead, YouTube will display a number of advertisements on the video content that is served.

YouTube users can watch their favorite video content without ads, if they have subscribed to YouTube Premium. You do this by paying Rp. 59,000, users can watch YouTube without ads with the addition of video download features and the YouTube Premium application.