A tech-savvy user on Reddit has uncovered a way to bypass the adverts on YouTube videos as well as circumvent various paywalls on news sites.
The trick involves simply adding a full stop after the domain name in the URL. So, for example – http://www.youtube.com/randomvideo becomes http://www.youtube.com./randomvideo and the latter will load without adverts.
Apparently, the hack only works on desktop browsers and is due to larger websites using different hosting domains for ads and content.
Adding the extra symbol fools the site into loading the content but none of the connected stuff – like cookies or adverts. (Metro)