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homebody1966
Channel Surfer
6 years ago
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How To Block YouTube Ads On Roku

is there a way to watch YouTube with no ads on Roku?

  • RokuTannerD's avatar
    RokuTannerD
    6 years ago

    homebody1966  Thanks for the note. For questions about a channel's features or functionality, you'll want to reach out to that channel provider directly for more information. 

    For YouTube, you may be able to sign into the YouTube channel using a YouTube Premium subscription in order to limit or eliminate ads during playback, but you would need YouTube to confirm whether or not that functionality is supported. You can reach out to their support team here: https://support.google.com/youtube/?hl=en#topic=9257498

     

    Thanks,

    Tanner

  • EddiePadre's avatar
    EddiePadre
    5 years ago

    I am telling  that Roku cannot remove ads, only Android system in other streaming devices can. I know that Roku doesn't run Android.

  • RokuTannerD's avatar
    RokuTannerD
    Retired Moderator
    6 years ago

    homebody1966  Thanks for the note. For questions about a channel's features or functionality, you'll want to reach out to that channel provider directly for more information. 

    For YouTube, you may be able to sign into the YouTube channel using a YouTube Premium subscription in order to limit or eliminate ads during playback, but you would need YouTube to confirm whether or not that functionality is supported. You can reach out to their support team here: https://support.google.com/youtube/?hl=en#topic=9257498

     

    Thanks,

    Tanner

    • John5451's avatar
      John5451
      Newbie
      5 years ago

      Yours was not a solution, it is just a promotion making people pay.  Youtube display commercial every 5 minutes, it is a matter of time people would get sick and calling for a boycott. 

      • gharris34's avatar
        gharris34
        Binge Watcher
        5 years ago

        I'm hoping YouTube Vanced creates a Roku app soon!

    • Cpt1nsano's avatar
      Cpt1nsano
      Newbie
      5 years ago

      Try this:

      Start with Roku Settings
      1. Tap on the Settings option in your Roku home screen.
      2. Next, tap on Privacy, and choose Advertising.
      3. Then you need to tick the box next to Limit Ad Tracking.
      4. Finally, restart your Roku device.
      • loufuddrucker3's avatar
        loufuddrucker3
        Streaming Star
        5 years ago

        did that. didnt notice any difference. really wanted political ads to go.

    • PSlacker's avatar
      PSlacker
      Newbie
      5 years ago

      Strange that I get almost no ads on my Samsung tablet when using its YouTube app, but an absolute ton of them when using Roku's YouTube app. This doesn't seem as simple as "we at Roku have no control over this", and it feels disingenuous for Roku to merely suggest that we pay YouTube a hundred bucks a year to solve the problem.

      Surely you don't expect me to believe that if YouTube has tailored the Roku version of their app to be far more annoying than YouTube's own Android app, there's nothing Roku can do about it?  Is Roku a powerless victim of mean old YouTube? ie "we're going to give your customers a worse experience than on other platforms, and since we're YouTube you just have to accept our terms" ??

      Maybe it's time to look into other products (especially with Black Friday coming soon).

      • W7PM's avatar
        W7PM
        Newbie
        3 years ago

        Exactly, I'm watching YOUTUBE on my WIN 11 Desktop (signed into EDGE via my normal Google account) LITERALLY NO ADS...

        As soon as I move over to the TV and open up my YOU TUBE app on my ROKU, bam, adds every 5 minutes, no matter which GOOGLE account I'm logged into.

        What's worse, is that the ADS are getting worse. Not just a 15 second ad before the video starts, but several every video of over 3 minutes long, then a final ad at the end.

        It's WORSE than Broadcast TV.

        I for one, make it a point to BOYCOTT every advertiser I see on YouTube.

        YouTube used to be fun, but now its a pain to watch even a few minute long video. Shame of Youtube for ponying up with the evil GOOGLE Corporation.

         

         

  • FedUpAmerican1's avatar
    FedUpAmerican1
    Newbie
    5 years ago

    That's not a youtube issue its a Roku issue to which there is no solution. I'm getting those annoying ads too and considering going to another platform  

    • atc98092's avatar
      atc98092
      Community Streaming Expert
      5 years ago

      If the ads are within YouTube, that is Google not Roku shoving them at you. Roku only controls ads on the home screen and within The Roku Channel. And the ads I see on the home screen are not video, just static ads.

  • Then's avatar
    Then
    Newbie
    5 years ago

    I use a Chromebook and have Adblock for YouTube installed. When I use the “Play on TV” button in the browser, and connect to my Roku, it plays the video without ads.

    You have to use the browser to control what videos play, which might be inconvenient, but it gets rid of the ads. Pick your poison, I guess.

    • EddiePadre's avatar
      EddiePadre
      Binge Watcher
      5 years ago

      What you do is that you are using the chromebook with the Roku website with the adblock but it is the chromebook signal that receives the final objective, in win10 it can be done as well. I only mean Roku the box, it is impossible, not like the Amazon Stick and the new Chromecast with Google TV that you can also do that without having a pc or chromebook. The concept is different.

  • kiwisoup's avatar
    kiwisoup
    Reel Rookie
    3 years ago

    While this doesn't remove ads, it does make them much less annoying to tweak your Google ad settings which is how the ad topics are selected:

    https://adssettings.google.com/

     

    During midterm elections, disabling the "pregnancy/parenting" topic under sensitive issues almost completely eliminated all of the abortion ads. There was also many things I was being advertised that were very repetitive and didn't apply to me at all and by tweaking the settings around I got it to stop showing them to me.

  • tattoogenius68's avatar
    tattoogenius68
    Newbie
    9 months ago

    What I do is a bit of a hassle but it works, Simply put an ad blocker on an android device or PC that blocks ads on Youtube and cast it to your ROKU. I use a casting app, one on the device and the companion on the ROKU.