Youtube Ads Before Targeted Video

Question

I am trying to avoid Youtube Pre-Rolls while integrating Youtube Android SDK. Is there any way to avoid it?

I understand that there is a clause that:

"does not encourage or create functionality for Your users or other third parties to: modify, replace, interfere with or block advertisements placed by YouTube in the YouTube Data, YouTube audiovisual content, or the YouTube player;"

https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms

However, after looking some application recommended from the below site and for example 5by. I does not see them playing any Ads before any Youtube video.

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/12/no-webview-required-with-native-youtube.html

It would be great, if anyone have idea to bypass this Youtube Ad which comes before the targeted vide.

Finally, in any case (even if it is a piracy concern), I would like to understand, how applications like 5by would be able to by-pass ads that plays before the targeted video.

Answer 1

Using the Youtube Android API you can set the video mode to Chromeless during the init step (like in onInitializationSuccess()):

@Override
public void onInitializationSuccess(YouTubePlayer.Provider provider, YouTubePlayer youTubePlayer, boolean restored) {
    //...
    player.setPlayerStyle(YouTubePlayer.PlayerStyle.CHROMELESS);
    //...
}

While in Chromeless mode the SDK doesn't load any ads in pre-roll (before the video playback), instead it will show bottom overlay ads during the playback (which can be a little annoying anyway).