I'm STILL getting War Thunder ads / recommendations...

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

...And it's driving me mad. Steam is easy; I just click 'Ignore' on War Thunder's Store page, and I almost never see it again (except for the occasional $90 "starter pack"). But Youtube... oh boy, Youtube. No matter how many times I click "do not recommend channel" on every War Thunder video I see, it STILL recommends new ones to me. And not massive channels, either; random no-namers with 32 subscribers, something it never does for games I actually watch on a regular basis like Mario Odyssey.

I suspect the reason is that I DO watch a lot of videos for games that are similar to War Thunder, such as Trailmakers and WARNO, and Youtube's algorithm simply can't comprehend that someone can like things similar to popular thing X, but hate X itself. Also rage-inducing is when other creators I watch, such as SpiffingBrit and WorstPremadeEver, get "sponsored" by War Thunder even though they basically only play singleplayer and co-op games respectively. It's more baleful than RAID: Shadow Legends at this point.

How do I get War Thunder out of my life?

[bastion of pragmatism]

Get off the internet

[Cop Unit 12]

So the suffering spreads to people who don't play the game? Good. (this is a joke reply)

[Canadian Guitar]

Ad blocker.

But, ads track your history, and coming to the WAR THUNDER FORUM to say you aren't interested in War Thunder isn't helping much

[TwoChins]

Use sponsorblock, not that hard.

[Dura_Ace]

Ad blocker? No? Maybe its time.

I use Firefox and have done so since the Netscape days. It was and is a better browser than IE , Edge, Safari or Opera ever was and ever will be.

Google makes Chromium. Google makes its money from ads. Google does not allow ad blocking in Chromium or makes it nearly impossible to do so or makes it really hard to do so. They are in the business of selling you so they are not going to make a browser that does not allow this.

Why people use Chromium is beyond me? Do you people always follow the sheep and say bah bah bah...but all the others are doing it?

Ive not seen an ad on youtube for over a decade now. More like 15 years or more. Ads on the web do not exist for me.

This quarter i am going to set up my Raspberry Pi 4 as a Pi-Hole. Ad blocking on the network level. They dont even enter my computer unlike now. Now they are being filtered by addons. After they will get stopped before they even enter the network.

The FBI even states that you should have an ad blocker.

Dont want cookies and weird corporations tracking your every move on the web? Start limiting who can set cookies, how long they live for and delete them on browser exit.

Do you allow third party cookies? If so, then you are asking to be tracked and served ads. No ad blocker? The same as the first sentence of this paragraph.

[Spungy bob]

The YouTube algorithm tracks what you watch and do online, if you look up military vehicles, of course it's going to recommend WT. If you watch vehicle combat, it's going to recommend WT. Either deal with it, or stop looking those things up.

[Barry Cabbage]

Yeah, that's how advertisements work... nobody wants to watch an advert.

Just install an adblocker of some kind and save yourself the time.

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

Publicado originalmente por Dura_Ace:

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I do use an adblocker, as well as a VPN, although it IS the one built into Opera. It's been almost completely successful at blocking ads everywhere but YouTube though. I eventually caved and started the free trial of YouTube "Premium", but while actual ads are gone, random recommendations of War Thunder (and Roblox) from tiny, no-name channels still exist.

Publicado originalmente por HottestKnees:

The YouTube algorithm tracks what you watch and do online, if you look up military vehicles, of course it's going to recommend WT. If you watch vehicle combat, it's going to recommend WT. Either deal with it, or stop looking those things up.

Is there genuinely no way to convince the algorithm that me liking vehicle warfare doesn't mean I adore War Thunder? I'm certainly not going to quit a bunch of games I DO love just because YouTube has OCD and keeps recommending the same thing no matter how much I refuse it.

[mogami_99]

Publicado originalmente por Crossbreed Priscilla:

Publicado originalmente por Dura_Ace:

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I do use an adblocker, as well as a VPN, although it IS the one built into Opera. It's been almost completely successful at blocking ads everywhere but YouTube though. I eventually caved and started the free trial of YouTube "Premium", but while actual ads are gone, random recommendations of War Thunder (and Roblox) from tiny, no-name channels still exist.

Publicado originalmente por HottestKnees:

The YouTube algorithm tracks what you watch and do online, if you look up military vehicles, of course it's going to recommend WT. If you watch vehicle combat, it's going to recommend WT. Either deal with it, or stop looking those things up.

Is there genuinely no way to convince the algorithm that me liking vehicle warfare doesn't mean I adore War Thunder? I'm certainly not going to quit a bunch of games I DO love just because YouTube has OCD and keeps recommending the same thing no matter how much I refuse it.

Best solution. Ignore them. 1 click. I use youtube premium so I don't ever get adds but it is still no effort to just 1 click them away.

[Canadian Guitar]

Publicado originalmente por Crossbreed Priscilla:

Publicado originalmente por Dura_Ace:

-snip-

I do use an adblocker, as well as a VPN, although it IS the one built into Opera. It's been almost completely successful at blocking ads everywhere but YouTube though. I eventually caved and started the free trial of YouTube "Premium", but while actual ads are gone, random recommendations of War Thunder (and Roblox) from tiny, no-name channels still exist.

Publicado originalmente por HottestKnees:

The YouTube algorithm tracks what you watch and do online, if you look up military vehicles, of course it's going to recommend WT. If you watch vehicle combat, it's going to recommend WT. Either deal with it, or stop looking those things up.

Is there genuinely no way to convince the algorithm that me liking vehicle warfare doesn't mean I adore War Thunder? I'm certainly not going to quit a bunch of games I DO love just because YouTube has OCD and keeps recommending the same thing no matter how much I refuse it.

Clearly you're not using a good adblocker if you're still getting ads on youtube.

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

Publicado originalmente por Canadian Guitar:

Publicado originalmente por Crossbreed Priscilla:

I do use an adblocker, as well as a VPN, although it IS the one built into Opera. It's been almost completely successful at blocking ads everywhere but YouTube though. I eventually caved and started the free trial of YouTube "Premium", but while actual ads are gone, random recommendations of War Thunder (and Roblox) from tiny, no-name channels still exist.

Clearly you're not using a good adblocker if you're still getting ads on youtube.

For the benefit of those living under a rock lately, YouTube has essentially been in an arms race with adblockers lately. Prior to getting "Premium", I would reenable my adblocker, it would work for a few days, then YouTube would notice and block playback until I turned it off.

Currently, my concern is not ads per say, but all the random tiny channels that pop up in my feed, probably because all the large War Thunder channels were blocked by me long ago. Still, if you've got an adblocker that reliably works on YouTube, I'd love to try it out.

[ErickaUnlimited]

While the ads are War Thunder ones you wish to block, the issues you're having (ads on YouTube/Steam) have nothing to do with the game.

Locking this up.