Blocking pop-up adverts in YouTube videos

"Easy as Pie! Download the addon for fire fox called ""Adblock plus""

After installed goto youtube and click on a video, while it is playing click on the ABP icon in the top right corner of your screen.

Click on anything that says ""google"" in it.

Click the bubble next to the one that eliminates anything from google ""http://www.google.com/*""or something similar

Click add filter on the bottom right of your Adblock screen

POOF! No more ad pop ups!

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"Just install Adblock Plus? Though that would not allow for your why shouldn't websites try to make money from it's users...

EDIT: I now see I actually missed your real question, how do I block those sorts of ad's without blocking non-obtrusive everyday adverts? One could use Adblock to only block Google advertisements, but I guess many sites actually use Google ads, so that would still block too much for your liking. I'll leave my answer here for a while, to avoid others reading as bad as I did.

EDIT 2: One could enable Adblock on YouTube only (or maybe for s.ytimg.com, which seems to be the static non-cookie video server), but like joshhunt wrote, YouTube needs the money as well..."

"Adding:

127.0.0.1 m1.emea.2mdn.net.edgesuite.net
127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net

to /etc/hosts will disable the ads system-wide, but it might affect some other sites too.

Update: without adding pagead2.googlesyndication.com, I have found this to be unreliable. This addition does pose a threat to other sites."

In ABP: Filter preferences- Add filter "||youtube.com/annotations_invideo?*"

"Unfortunately

No

, outside of clicking on the ""X"" to close the advertisement, you will always see these ads on YouTube Partner videos...

The ads are what keeps YouTube free and it is compensation to the YouTube Partner's efforts for creating popular videos to incentive for them to continue to make popular videos...

Source(s):http://youtube-answers.blogspot.com"