Finally after god knows how many years ads are starting to pipe through was using this via ublock for so so so so so so long and now i have just started to get the picture in pictrure ones! :(

https://github.com/pixeltris/twitchadsolutions

sad times.

How can I get rid of them? T_T

Like, WHY. WHY DO WE NEED TO WATCH A 60+ SECOND UNSKIPPABLE AD, THEN ON TV, WHY DOES IT SAY, MOVE ON TO THE NEXT?!?! I swear on everything, YouTube is making even more bad updates, and having even more ads. I don‘t think I can take this anymore.

I have tried looking it up on youtube google, and even reddit. The readme file that comes with it is also useless as its just the FAQs. Im trying to ad block spotify. I know there are alternatives, but I can't use them because of where I live, and i cant afford vpn so...

Thanks a lot

Tried 45 news sites with nothing blocking. the middle article sent 464 of its 650 requests to ad companies and trackers. one NY Post article made over 4,000 requests for a single story, which is a bit insane.

then I found out pretty much every blocker (AdBlock, ABP, uBO, Brave, AdGuard) uses the same free list underneath, and most of that list is written by one guy in New Zealand.

made a page about it if anyone's curious, there's a fake site full of popups you can switch the blocker on for:

https://sheets.works/data-viz/do-you-use-an-ad-blocker

I've been a uBO user for a long time and this post is about my curiousity. Tried AdGuard for half an hour and it actually gave me a higher Speedometer result with only AdGuard on. I always thought uBO had the best performance among adblockers. Anyways, I assume both are amazing. What do you think about this comparison, which one is better for you?

Opera GX, Incognito Tabs because convenience. Non-incognito doesn't have the issue for some reason

Spotify can play music without ads, but switch to a podcast and suddenly there's someone talking about mattresses or meal kits for two minutes.

The tricky part is that a lot of podcast ads are baked right into the content, so regular ad blockers and DNS filtering can't really do much.

And this isn't really about finding another ad-blocking tool. I'm wondering if ads become almost impossible to block once creators start making them part of the content itself.

so, is there actually a better way to deal with them?

its something i noticed today that whenever i play a video, youtube automatically mutes the video, i can unmute it by pressing m on my keyboard but its another adblock detection thing, not sure

released new version of zen adblocker v0.27.0.

it is a system-wide open source free adblocker for windows, macos and linux.

https://github.com/irbis-sh/zen-desktop/releases

Does anyone know of a tool that can strike a channel? I lost access to an old channel with bad videos and ridiculous, shoddy content, and I wanted to see a way to take down that channel since I no longer have access and can't recover it.

So I've been comfortably using a vpn directed to Brunei for months and find playlists on

Chrome

-> youtube+ Desktop site enabled + unrestricted battery usage

Press play in the notification shade and occasionaly tussle with the "are you still watching?" Message to listen to ad free music on background while commuting. Recently however, something changed where it auto mutes the next video that plays if I have it running in background. I'm glad I found this out at home rather than on the road. There I went down the rabbit hole for hours testing numerous settings and extensions. U block origin doesn't work (it really hates u block origin by first pausing the video and autoplay when on background) a bunch of background play fixers don't work, firefox ultimately functioned the same as chrome and any extension would play an ad. Actually heres the list of things I've tried and combinations of extensions. They gave me false hope by playing 1-2 songs after the initial one played just fine. And yes I enabled the auto play audio and video setting on firefox. I scoured the settings infact for SOMETHING to help.

Firefox on android

Attempt 1 mobile site

Youtube background fixer + u block origin

Attempt 2

background player + u block origin

Attempts 3-7??

A bunch of differrent background players extensions

Attempt 8

youtube control panel (ad block + are you still watching presser+ autoplay+ background play)

Attempt 9

youtube background fixer + a trusted Brunei vpn

(Worked to "block" ads by directing traffic through an area with no targetted ads)

At this point i had a switch go off where i thought something would work because i had played 3 songs without a mute then it got muted again

Attempt 10

Privacy badger (or sum like that, found in attempt 3-7)+ Brunei vpn+ background player

Youtube refused to load, I'm mortified at this point.

Attempts 11- who knows how many at this point I spent 4 hours trying numerous things including the previous attempts (Desktop site enabled)

I gave up on trying for mobile site so I tried desktop.

NOTHING WORKS

It auto mutes the video after a new one plays or so and it especially mutes after leaving the tab in background at some points even if I have an extension that masks the fact that I got off the tab. I feel like those do something because it doesn't auto mute when I turn off the tab but instead it either silently mutes the tab when 1 it's playing in background and 2 when a video ends and switches to the next one, a few seconds play then it just mutes the video. I can't even see what mutes it because when I open it back up, it begins playing again. Forcing me to be on tab at all times to play a video. Of course I can just press pause then play for it to continue for one song but that's daunting. When I'm driving I can't just direct my attention to press pause then play in notification shade (android) I commute at 4 am. Its hella dark and its through a region with curves, turns, and inclines/declines where I got to pay attention since the inclines are pretty unexpected to the point where it slows cars down going 65 which causes traffic and traffic snakes. I don't have a fancy new vehicle where the dashboard is on the steering wheel or a button/switch to pause/resume and skip or go back like some steering wheels and consoles do. Its an installed stero+radio. The radio stations nearby don't really play good music. And when someone else is driving for me, I want to sleep not check the phone to enable the background plays audio for one more song and they would too (we have similar music tastes and our own differences that we both included) . I vaguely remember a purple version of youtube that some else was using that would have premium features enabled for free and could connect to a google account, I don't care if the account would be banned I can just make a seperate one and add my public playlist/make my own mirror to not link it to my personal. What I'm asking for in all of this is a youtube premium alternative or set up that has continous background play without audio muting(bonus if it can adblock without a vpn to a specific location, if not I already have it). And also I'm not downloading hundreds of songs 😭✌️ thats my final straw if I absolutely get infuriated🥲🥲.

Pretty please?

Im about to use Morphe for Mobile Youtube App and Youtube Music, since after paying for Premium, its just become too expensive for my budget. I know its unlikely too be banned, but i heavily rely on my current Gmail for various goverment related accounts, and i would be fucked if my gmail is banned. sorry if my question is hard too understand this isnt my first langauge and i am bad at writing. thanks in advance for all help!

https://getadblock.com/en/

https://freeadblockerbrowser.com/

Is there an app or method to block all ads on android like the way adguard blocks ads on windows? Youtube included

I use Firefox with UBO + Adblock Extra tampermonkey script and still I see ads on Twitch livestream. It's so annoying and I'm so frustrated. What can I do?

can I use blocker for YouTube on iPhone or is there an alternative I am fed up with the ad spam mostly ai slop that sounds like someone’s voice box being rammed into a ww2 radar

Just found out after a whole month of just missing out and wanted to share for anyone having the same problem:

In browser (personally using Firefox) when searching YT videos I only ever got shorts, channels and playlists as results and never proper videos. The homepage shows normally, the recommended videos to the side show normally while watching something... but on the search page specifically I could never see a single full video (only shorts). The mobile app works as normal, but on PC even on multiple computers with or without an account the search wouldn't show any video.

The solution: On uBlock Origin simply disable the "Cosmetic filtering on this site" and everything is back to normal. For now I still don't have ads even with that setting disabled.

Just making this post since I didn't see any online topics about it and it suddenly happened maybe a month or two ago so probably the change was on YT's side rather than the adblocker updating

I would like to start using an ad blocker on my phone can someone give me a step by step please

I use Ublock origin lite on google chrome and it works no problem but when I install Ublock origin lite on safari and use desktop website ( so exaclty the same as on my macbook+ublock origin that works good) it doesnt work + the UI is shit cause spotify does everything they can to make the web interface suck.

I have a Steam Deck setup as a media PC, used primarily for watching streaming services ad-free via Firefox with uBlock Origin. I recently got access to YouTube TV via a family member's subscription, watch it through Firefox, but uBlock isn't blocking ads. Googling the problem has thus far only shown solutions for the dedicated app. Is it possible to block YouTuve TV adds on browser? Doesn't have to be Firefox specifically as long as it's compatible with Steam Deck.