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Before I commented I wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy, so I actually tested it with ABP off. This video [1] played a 30s Coors Lite commercial for me after I disabled ABP and refreshed. Any corporate/official type channel will likely be heavily monetized and feature ads prior to starting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRN_LkCa_o

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Video started immediately, I didn't touch anything. The video ended uninterrupted at 4:30.

An small annotation link to a different song appeared for a couple of seconds, at the bottom left. Those annotations can be disabled in the ui. Of course that as any other annotation, didn't pause the video.

Apart from that there were no adds.

( choose a better song next time please :-) )

If you disable NoScript do you see an ad prior to the video?

(I didn't look closely at it -- was in a "popular videos" cluster and VEVO stuff will always have ads)

No ads if I disable it.

My last guess is that you're in a country advertisers don't care about. Other than that, I've lost interest and hope you enjoy your loophole ;)

Thank you; I pretty sure they care about my country though, especially since adds were displayed on a friends computer on the same network.

I'm sure that careful readers( not that many apparently :-) ) will spot the cause.

Yeah you have the ad domains in your hosts file which causes the ad load to fail. Pretty caveman technique but if it works it works

I would have to say it is very elegant and simple. Besides the missing adds I had no problems with anything else.

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