{"id":58894,"date":"2014-01-22T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T11:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=58894"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:56:02","slug":"clean-up-your-youtube-interface-with-adblock-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/clean-up-your-youtube-interface-with-adblock-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean up your YouTube interface with Adblock Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the fury that erupted when YouTube imposed its new comment system on users, <a title=\"AdBlock Plus on Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/s\/adblock-plus\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adblock Plus<\/a> is poised to counterattack: the plugin now allows you to <strong>clean up Google&#8217;s YouTube interface.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s heard the phrase &#8216;Google ecosystem&#8217;, and while the integration may not be ideal for some users, it does sum up well\u00a0the whole range\u00a0of products and services that Big G has\u00a0aggregated\u00a0and combined over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Some of latest buzz was surrounding the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/youtube-updates-comment-system-to-deal-with-spam\">YouTube comment system<\/a> and the ability to comment on videos only when <strong> signed in with a Google+\u00a0profile, <\/strong> a\u00a0flawless example of product integration. Google claims that the reason behind this move is to combat the trolling, offensive, violent and generally inappropriate comments that sometimes occur in an anonymous commenting system.<\/p>\n<p>Many users have taken this news as an <strong>act of force on\u00a0Google&#8217;s part<\/strong>. As a result, the developers behind <strong>Adblock Plus<\/strong>, a plugin for <a title=\"AdBlock Plus for Chrome\" href=\"http:\/\/adblock-plus.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome<\/a>, <a title=\"Adblock Plus for Firefox\" href=\"http:\/\/adblock_plus_firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox<\/a> and most recently <a href=\"http:\/\/adblock-plus-for-safari.en.softonic.com\/mac\">Safari<\/a>, have sprung into action, updating its add-on so that numerous &#8216;disturbing&#8217;\u00a0elements, including the now controversial comments field, can be removed from the\u00a0YouTube interface.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below to see <strong>how to install Adblock Plus<\/strong>, and check out results.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>Default player<\/div>\n<p><!-- By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C found at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. --><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after the rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line. --><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED ARTICLES:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/adblock-plus-now-available-for-safari\">Adblock Plus now available for Safari<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"10 fantastic Google Easter Eggs\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/10-fantastic-google-easter-eggs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 fantastic Google Easter Eggs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/youtube-updates-comment-system-to-deal-with-spam\">YouTube updates comment system to deal with spam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the fury that erupted when YouTube imposed its new comment system on users, Adblock Plus is poised to counterattack: the plugin now allows you to clean up Google&#8217;s YouTube interface. Everyone&#8217;s heard the phrase &#8216;Google ecosystem&#8217;, and while the integration may not be ideal for some users, it does sum up well\u00a0the whole range\u00a0of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/clean-up-your-youtube-interface-with-adblock-plus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clean up your YouTube interface with Adblock Plus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2355,1044],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-58894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331503,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58894\/revisions\/331503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58894"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=58894"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=58894"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=58894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}