Ads are the bane of many people’s Internet lives but they are also the lifeblood of many companies. Striking a balance between those two parties without resorting to shenanigans and illegal practices has become an almost never-ending quest for the likes of Google. From third-party browser extensions to premium subscriptions, there have been different methods of removing ads on web pages and videos. The simplest, it turns out, is to just add a single dot after the “.com” of a YouTube URL.

This loophole was discovered by a Redditor who is now being hailed as a genius and hero, at least for the time being. The workaround is based on a loophole that YouTube and some other sites have failed to plug. Now, some Internet users will be able to take advantage of that at their expense>>>>>>>Ads are the bane of many people’s Internet lives but they are also the lifeblood of many companies. Striking a balance between those two parties without resorting to shenanigans and illegal practices has become an almost never-ending quest for the likes of Google. From third-party browser extensions to premium subscriptions, there have been different methods of removing ads on web pages and videos. The simplest, it turns out, is to just add a single dot after the “.com” of a YouTube URL.

This loophole was discovered by a Redditor who is now being hailed as a genius and hero, at least for the time being. The workaround is based on a loophole that YouTube and some other sites have failed to plug. Now, some Internet users will be able to take advantage of that at their expense