Grammarly Ads on YouTube really get my goat, and I wanted to figure out how to stop seeing them. After a bunch of searching for “how to stop grammarly ads on YouTube” yielded nothing, I sat down at my stand up desk and thought about it.
I figured it out. And there’s only one sure-fire way.
Why Do I Notice Grammarly Ads So Much on YouTube?
I probably wouldn’t have noticed them any other day, but yesterday I had a bit of a YouTube binge. Sometimes when I’m sad, I watch men fighting on YouTube – it’s like a mis-placed aggression being acted out on a canvas surface. It only really hurts myself.
Now there’s no reason to expect young men to donate their brain cells to sport without being paid. So YouTube has two modes – ad supported and a subscription model.
Grammarly wants to tout their product and pays for the privilege.
YouTube gets some money, the person providing the content gets some money.
(though I suspect it’s really content aggregators who provide montages of other people’s content who really get paid – “Top 10 apocalypses that ended worlds” probably doesn’t feed too much money back to the original four horsemen that started them and their patient videographers – I believe the fifth horseman is now called Social Media and gets the lion’s share of funding, but then again is probably doing more to cause depression and anxiety in the modern world. And as we know from dirty warfare, you don’t win by killing people cleanly, you weaken the opposition by wounding them severely and forcing them to care for the wounded. Ergo Social Media’s unwitting side-effects are probably doing more to hamstring civilization than smallpox)
So Grammarly is paying a bundle to get their product out there. On one hand you might see their grammar and spelling correction as helpful. On the other, you might see that sending every single thing you type to a third party (over and above Google et al.) might be a great opportunity to lose every single secret you ever wanted to keep and to give yet another platform the knowledge to advertise the heck out of your interactions.
The Only Way To Stop Grammarly Ads
The answer is pretty simple I’m afraid.
You click on their ads as often as possible.
The company has a marketing department. It has a budget. It is measured on its ability to put ads on a network, get people to click on them, and then ultimately sign up for Grammarly – either the free version where you just give them every jot of your typed data, or the paid version where you pay about $30 per month for the same privilege.
So every time you see an ad, click on it. You’ll see a link from YouTube like this:
https://www.grammarly.com/?q=writing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=youtube&utm_phase=other&utm_content=testimonials1m&gclid=CjwKCAiAiarfBRASEiwAw1tYv4mH6pUJiqFuoqD6sMAxycawV000irVwhIr75w9ZDblaSunGmi2ZNRoC_gAQAvD_BwE
So What Happens When I Click on a Grammarly Ad on YouTube
If you break down the URL above, you’ll see standard tracking parts – things beginning with utm_ (utm_medium, utm_source etc.) allow the marketeers to say what generated the click to their site, and also present different data quite easily to the user.
You can build your own utm_ URLs ideal for google analytics at the Google campaign URL builder. ( Random fact: UTM stands for Urchin Tracking Modules – Urchin being a company Google bought in 2005 to help them get Analytics up and running)
The useful part in this for us people frustrated by the sheer frequency of Grammarly advertisements is the utm_medium=cpc part. CPC stands for cost per click.
So every time we click on it, the campaign budget is used up. The more we click, the less money they have to pay for ads. The less conversions – people signing up from YouTube clicks they have – the less they’ll be inclined to flood YouTube with their visual canticles.
Everyone Needs To Contribute to Stop YouTube Grammarly Ads
I can’t do this all by myself. We need everyone to click the living bejesus out of those ads consistently for a week. Click the damn thing every time you see it. Get your friends to click it. Get your enemies to click it twice. Click it til the insipid campaign is all done. Spent and spent. Exhausted crashing on the walls of user indifference. Click it til it’s dead. If I can place a banner here for Grammarly I will.
Does Grammarly Work?
If you want to know more about Grammarly, you might give their product a whirl. I know I did a few years back and thought it was quite a useful way to learn more about grammar. I’ve written a little update, and will use lots of funny parameters in the link to that Grammarly update to show how they work (although in practice, you wouldn’t need to do that with links from your own site.)
I love the BBC’s comment on Grammarly when it raised $110m in funding in 2017:
Its own website contains the sentence: “Enhance your sentences with Grammarly’s context-optimized word choice suggestions to instantly improve the readability of your document.”
Clearly split infinitives are safe from the software’s forensic gaze.
Thanks for the tip, will try to remove that annoying ad. Somehow, it always makes me feel like the internet believes that I have terrible grammar.
All our grammar are bad. It´s what make us human.
Of course, since gmail already guesses what Iºm going to type in an email, soon I´ll just be a bot. And then my grammar are being perfect
I tried to do Grammarly but it has the worst grammar ever when I tried doing 7 Rings it made me remove the I want it I got it part Then I was mad it gets on my nerves so much it’s a robot
I don’t know how dense you are but I never negotiate with terrorists. They offer their shit, I say no and I mean it. Giving in to one demand of a sociopath, or cop, (same thing) will only assure you more demands. Remember when our parents told us never to take free candies from strangers, you got it, they want to put your thinking mind to sleep and sell your other organs on the black market. (or sell you someone else’s. See how even the right spelling is put into question? That is the sort of mind game the police and sociopaths (same thing) play. Never let a stranger make a home into your computer, unless you are already brain dead and a simple human resource.
Dang! That grammarly ad really got on my nerves. I’ve been searching a way to get read of it for some time, really. Thank you, I’m gonna try this one.
i suggest you don’t! Because you need grammar lessons asap! How the fu.. can you mis-pronounce ”Rid” to ”Read”? it s written ”get rid of….”
You could improve your own grammer too. The rule is that you can’t start a sentence with “because” as it should only be used to join the main clause with a dependent clause. Otherwise, you end up with a fragmented sentence.
Why do I start sentences with “because”? Because I want to. Because it’s my colloquial style. Because we want to. (in the words of Billie herself)
“Clearly split infinitives are safe from the software’s forensic gaze.” As they should be: there’s nothing wrong with splitting an infinitive, and plenty of the most revered authors have done so. Here’s what Bernard Shaw wrote about someone trying to correct split infinitives:
I ask you, Sir, to put this man out. Give the porter orders to use such violence as may be necessary if he attempts to return, without, however, interfering with his perfect freedom of choice between “to suddenly go,” “to go suddenly”, and “suddenly to go”. See that he does not come back; that is the main thing. And allow me, as one who has some little right to speak on the subject, to assure your readers that they may, without the slightest misgiving, use adverbed infinitives in any of the three ways given above. All they need consider is which of the three best conveys by its rhythm the feeling they wish to express.
Grammerly ad honestly makes me want to paint the ceiling red Curt Cobain style. Just FO
Grammatically speaking, the use of split infinitives is acceptable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive#Current_views
Suggesting it isn’t as a way to bash grammarly is therefore a bit amusing 🙂
Thanks for the link and for pointing that out. Split infinitives may well be allowed, I guess it’s style and preference. My grammar ain’t perfect, you don’t have to really try hard to find me split my infinitives, or find inconsistencies.
Still, grammarly ads pester the living bejesus out of me. Who voted them for world’s grammar police? Not I.
Grammarly ads are so annoying, I’m not exaggerating when I say I haven’t had an ad other than Grammarly for a week, I’m serious. I thought downloading it would help, but it seemed to make the ads more aggressive. I also tried typing “I hate Grammarly” into google 20 times, so that the algorithm would GET A HINT, but it only got rid of the ads for a week.
I will click those ads with all my heart. Forget, smash the like button, smash the Grammarly ads!!!!!
This is not an acceptable solution!!! I REFUSE!!! Grrrr!!!
I also wrote “F£$k you GRAMMALY” into google to see if that would make a difference, unfortunately not!!
This ad from grammarly is driving me insane. How can I block it?
Screw them.
you can download the youtube adblocker from the chrome webstore if you use edge or chrome
Split infinitives have been around since Middle English. Some people still don’t like them, but general consensus in grammar books is that they are not wrong, just contentous. George Bernard Shaw defended their use. Like some other so-called “rules” in English, it comes at least in part from pretending rules of Latin grammar apply to English. They don’t.
Also, I’ve seen a quiz that showed pairs of sentances with/without split infinitive. They asked English speakers which sounded more natural and in about 30% of cases, they preferred the split version as sounding more natural..
Count me in agreement; I find grammarly
advertisements too annoying and far too
frequent.
One of the earlier promotions I saw said
this product would help me “write smarter”.
While I would certainly like to write “more
smartly”, I doubt that a product that cannot
tell the difference between an adjective and
an adverb would be much help. The makers
of this turkey ought to spend more time
getting it right, and a lot less time annoying
the entire internet persuading people to buy it.
It going to help you doin smart writings innit
So… *you* thought the split infinitive in that line was some kind of mistake? Wow. I think you really do need Grammarly. Your knowledge of English syntax is too shallow.
But yes, Grammarly sucks, and I was here to find out HOW TO STOP THOSE F*CKIN ANNOYING ADS!
Hey certainly do raise ire, those ads about grammar and syntax correctness
I tried grammerly and I think it’s crap.
Maybe you’re not insecure enough about your grammar to feel the need to pay for grammarly
SERIOUSLY!!! I HATE HATE HATE GRAMMARLY!
(And the irony is not lost on me that the word GRAMMARLY gets the red squiggly line when I type it. LOL)
And I am NOT clicking on any links. I’m sorry, not gonna do it. More clicks mean the ad is working, in their view. So I refuse to click.
There must be some other way to make this stop. The ad plays EVERY TIME I try to start a new YouTube video!!!
HELP!!! Anyone???
Hate is a strong word but grammarly need a good kicking.
Their ad is working if they link as views with sales. If their ads get viewed and clicked but no sales follow, then they stop spending money on ads. So their ads aren’t working!
Surely this is turning counter productive now. With so many people getting annoyed by their repetitive adverts (literally playing after almost every single video now) their conversions to actual customers must be dropping like a stone. I write in my spare time, but I know I will NEVER use Grammarly. EVER! No one this annoying will ever get my custom.
This strategy is going to backfire. Job of marketing budgets is to get people to the product page. If YouTube ads are getting more clicks then it’s an effective channel for marketing and more money will be pumped in for YouTube ads. Once the consumer is at at app’s site/ AppStore, Conversion is supposed to be function of product. So, this strategy will only make them fiddle around their product and not change their advertising plan.
Although just writing this comment is more interruption in my day caused by Grammarly, I will never, ever, consider buying their product. Bombarding people with ads will eventually have an adverse effect for all these online ad villains. If I need a product, I search, and research. No ad has ever swayed my decision, on anything.
I just figured it out. YouTube are just trying to sell their ad-free subscription. Maybe they’re not even charging Grammarly, they’re just trying to annoy the crud out of viewers
I’ve done this before and I will keep doing it until the adds stop. The only problem I see is that they might count the click as “you are interested in this topic” which would have the exact opposite effect of what we are all trying to achieve :/
I just emailed their sales team telling them how annoying their youtube add is and that I can’t wait for their marketing budget bucket runs out! LOL. Oh and I even gave them a link to this page!
Well I hope they figure out how to stop the campaign, or their pockets are empty soon.
Grammarly ads leave me wanting to beat the Sushi Guy into a bloody pulp, and throw the narrator off a cliff, along with every other person involved with it.
This is pure evil strategy :p.
I Likes it
Hey, I have noticed that there are a lot of different ads. I just tried reinstalling chrome to try and get rid of them, then googled this one. Had googled the others before, Save whoever it was (some girl in Israel), and ad clearly meant to manipulate us shamelessly. There were others, too. Can’t remember off the top of my head. I was considering reformatting to see if this got rid of them. Because there was nothing on the “save so and so” ones on the internet at the time. Assumed it must be some kinda rip off scam virus.
Any tips on all of them? Should I click on all of them? I hadn’t seen an ad on my computer version of YouTube for years. Literally. My phone doesn’t have adblock, though. And these ads get through that, right to the start of the video, and I can’t get rid of them lol. Same as your experience, right?
Apologies for crappy diction and spellings, am kinda baked atm, lol.
I hadn’t seen an ad on my desktop version of YouTube since forever. Now these are getting through, along with a plethora of others. As though it is out of nowhere. Sudden increase.
I was just going to keep adding them to AdBlocker, and keep my fingers crossed.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I hate that add soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much on youtube!
whenever im in the middle of a goddamn video, that stupid add has to come on, makes me want to smash the hell outta my laptop, just sickening, okay so the asshole in the add can write a proper sentence to his boss (kiss ass much?) then has the nerve to say, i’m full of useful information or some crap, like BFD, okay? your nothing but a pathetic, stuck up asshole that probably has a shit attack or splits his ball sack if someone spells a sentence with errors, oh wow let that ruin your whole day right, ssomeones not “perfect” with writing like you, oh man what are you gonna do, oh my god uh!
ugh, grammer Nazi, that’s probably all he is, thinks he’s so perfect, when he’s far from it, last night I was watching a Top Pops vid, and that stupid add came on of course, so i’m like screw it! closed my laptop and went to bed at midnight, that’s how much that stupid add annoys me, get the hell off youtube, Christ, how many times do I have to give it the thumbs down before those youtards get the fucking point? hey, maybe we’re not enjoying it, get it through your stupid heads!
gotta find another place to watch videos online, cause this is getting ridicoulous, cant stand it anymore!
so you can write a proper sentence, oh wow aren’t you something special? go get the virus and dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I don’t get it, I got the Gramerelrely ad and there’s nowhere to click ? If I click on the actual video it just pauses the video ? WTH ?
Maybe you are getting fake grammarly ads?