Those frustrating few seconds you have to endure, before you can bypass the ads and move over to your video. The annoyance of going ‘skip….skip’, till you can get over with it. Well, you’re not the only one! We totally get you. YouTube ads can be a pain in the ass. The video sharing platform is easily one of the most popular network giants on the web. Statistics suggest that visitors view 6 billion hours of video each month on the platform! While this free-sharing website is steadily gaining popularity, a feature which we still can’t come to terms with, are the ads.

The YouTube ads are annoying. We get it!

While you’re binging and watching those endless streams of videos, ranging from ‘How to curl your hair’ to ‘The top 10 ways to woo them’, pretty much all your sessions are interrupted by the annoying ads. In a discovery, which will preserve the patience of millions, a redditor has come up with an incredible hack to solve the problem of the ads.

What's more! It’s just a simple period (.) that solves the issue. So what you essentially do is, add the period after the ‘.com’. (Instead of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnVqmfdI1Js, this is what you enter https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=UnVqmfdI1Js) Voila! The YouTube ads disappear, leaving you in peace. In some crazy tech magic that we’re not about to decipher for you, the new URL breaks the page in such a way that the ads go away. The good news is this works for cookies and paywalls of new sites as well!

You may be missing out!

Now while you’ve learnt the hack of avoiding the ads, you should know they aren’t so bad after all. There’s crazy loads of content, such as new releases, videos, shopping products and more, that you become aware of through YouTube ads. Creators also get paid, for the number of views they get on their ads, as this means you’re interested in them. So hey! Go show some love sometime. YouTube ads aren’t such a bad thing after all.