HACKER Q&A
📣 indigoabstract

Has anybody succesfully blocked YouTube's Hero Wars ads?


Has anybody succesfully blocked YouTube's Hero Wars ads?


  👤 indigoabstract Accepted Answer ✓
I'm not looking to block all ads, just this one in particular, as I'm tired of seeing them all the time..

https://twitter.com/dark1x/status/1617906629709811714?lang=e...

Telling Google to stop showing me this ad has no effect.


👤 bediger4000
Something's getting worse in the ad industry. A lot of the newsletters I get show ads done by ,"LiveIntent". I started to see the same 3-4 ads repetitively this past winter. Eventually, I clicked on the triangle on the ads to see if I could notify LiveIntent of the repetition. I was getting newsletters with 5 of 5 ads from "Grunt Style" purveying Qanon slogan clothing. I decided I could notify LiveIntent once per newsletter that I was getting bored of Grunt Style ads featuring copyright violations of The Punisher logo. And I assure you I'm not the target demographic for Qanon related merch. LiveIntent must have seen my complaints because the Captcha got harder. Then they refused complaints from gmail.com addresses, popping up a notice about how they required a business email address. An @mail.ru address worked, however.

Something's very rotten in online advertising.