I'm a liberal guy... why am I seeing so many CONSERVATIVE Youtube pre-video ads? Serious question!

[battleknight24]

I'm not talking about the occasional conservative ad, which happens to everyone.

I'm seeing a disproportionate number of conservative leaning ads for things like PragerU and even saw an add for some fringe newspaper site that brought up in their ad how they were one of the main "news" organizations to expose what Hillary Clinton did in Benghazi, blah blah blah... (its not Fox News or a traditional newspaper; does anyone know what I'm talking about?) There was another ad I saw yesterday that seemed to be an anti-abortion, anti-planned parenthood type of organization.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch, but are people pouring in tons of money to bomb Youtube with conservative ads? I get them even when I'm trying to watch a funny, non-political video.

What's going on?

[Squinch]

1. Because they know how to do messaging and we are not good at it.

[Tweedy]

21. Well....

Can you say what the GOP stands for, beyond this lawless president?

The GOP is full of tactical brilliance
and next to no strategic thinkers. Perhaps because this president hates science and everything and everyone else that could stop him or his cronies from stealing from the rest of us?

[Squinch]

24. What you are asking about isn't messaging.

[TwilightZone]

2. "are people pouring in tons of money to bomb Youtube"

Yep, especially since Twitter essentially banned them.

[crickets]

9. +1

[Brainfodder]

3. Because you aint savvy enough to block ads?

Look into it.....

HINT: Other browsers and/or extensions.

[Kali]

5. it only costs a couple bucks to be a member here and you will be ad-free

https://www.democraticunderground.com/star

[crickets]

13. I tried to do that recently and for some reason

PayPal would not recognize my phone number as real. It was strange. I switched browsers in the meantime, so I may try again.

[Kali]

16. PayPal can be whacky, I do know that

good luck, heart giveaway time is coming up!

[crickets]

19. No need - new browser handled it like a champ.

Woohoo! I was feeling bad about not sending some $appreciation to DU, so thanks for your comment that made me try again.

[SamKnause]

6. Try AdBlock.

It is free and it works great !!!

I have been using it for years.

Good luck.

[MontanaMama]

8. You use AdBlock on YouTube?

And it works? How does it block the ads on the front end of videos?

[crickets]

11. With good blocklist filters.

You don't have to set it up for YouTube specifically. It handles that as part of the package.

[MontanaMama]

14. Huh.

I’ll look into it. Thx.

[SamKnause]

15. I never see any ads.

I don't know how it works.

I spend a major amount of time on YouTube everyday.

Before I started using AdBlock I saw the ads.

Some gave the option of skipping after 5 seconds.

Now I never see any ads.

[MontanaMama]

17. I use the option to skip

after the obligatory 5 seconds. If you miss the window, however, they serve up another ad. I’ll look into AdBlock if it really helps. I hate those ads...they’re rwnj ads for the most part.

[Brainfodder]

18. If you are talking about embedded videos, that's a different animal.

There you have to manually jump ahead in the video.

Other options are downloading YT videos first in full then watching on whatever you want, whenever you want and most video player apps will let you jump to any place in the video you desire.

There are so many different browsers out there for different strokes.

[SamKnause]

20. Sorry I don't understand.

What is a embedded video ???

I use Google Chrome on my Dell desk top.

I watch video clips with Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, MSNBC, CNN etc.

[Brainfodder]

22. Added the ad(s) to the actual video file.

So even if you download it, the ad is still there, I expect that to be the norm on most videos sooner rather than later?

My cable providers ON-DEMAND is the same, ads are inside all the stream files and they don't let you skip them, small fix on that is remote mute button.

[MontanaMama]

7. I get them too

and I’m watching cooking videos or parrot training courses...benign stuff.

[coti]

10. Much of it is sponsored by Russia. nt

[lunasun]

12. Epoch Times got kicked off FB -banned . So Falun Gong put the $$$ in to YouTube so that's one

group that has increased ads
They evolved from a newspaper that promoted a Chinese-Worldwide religious movement with an anti-communist China message into a conservative online news behemoth that loves all that CT RW crap and was known for buying the most ads for
pro - trump bullshit last year on FB . It was said they were moving the $$ to Youtube

[pstokely]

23. I never see any ads with AdBlock

you could try that