Firefox Extension: Block YouTube Advertising with TubeStop

Posted by Kyle Eslick on August 24th, 2007 | Category and Tags

Yesterday I talked a bit about YouTube adding advertising, and what that means for YouTube users. Now it looks like the creator of the popular Firefox extension TubeStop was pleased to figure out that his extension actually already stops YouTube’s new advertising feature.

This extension was actually created to allow Firefox users to have videos open in several tabs by stopping YouTube’s auto play feature, so users can view the video when they are ready. The happy side effect is that it prevents all video overlay advertisements.

It’s nice to see this Firefox extension creator was able to foil YouTube’s advertising plans before YouTube even announced their advertising!

Download the TubeStop Extension

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  1. Comment by Vijay on August 24th, 2007:

    This is just amazing.. First it was Ad block plus for the adsense and other framed ads and now this! I am wondering if there is any blocker for kontera type ads??

  2. Comment by Kyle Eslick on August 25th, 2007:

    Vijay - There sure is! Only thing is it requires Greasemonkey. From my Best of: Greasemonkey Scripts post:

    Disable Text Ads - Removes inline contextual text from the following 3 services: VibrantMedia(IntelliTXT), Kontera and Linkworth.

  3. Comment by CristianR on August 25th, 2007:

    I guess there’ll no be more ads for me from now on:) Informative post Kyle.

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