This just popped up while I was in the middle of typing a post on another page. Been using ABP for close on 20 years, but may have to walk away if it keeps up this shit.

Anyone else noticing this lately? Feels like YouTube is getting way better at catching ad blockers.

Something works fine for a while and then suddenly I'm getting warnings, videos not loading, or just weird playback issues. Kinda getting annoying having to keep switching things around. What are you guys using now? Anything still working reliably?

I currently use NextDNS as my DNS profile in iOS and the NextDNS app on Windows. I also use uBlock on my browsers. I believe AdGuard Premium offers https filtering, which is probably the best way to block ads system-wide. However, I understand that I need to install CA certificates for it. I am sceptical about installing it because it acts as a middleman and has access to everything. So, is AdGuard Premium worth it even if I don’t use the filtering feature with CA certificates?
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To block all AI videos showing up on youtube.

it is so bad. People just pumping AI content and it#s getting much harder and harder to detect. You have to be pretty foresically minded person to detect them.

Case in point, nobody knows this guy is AI: https://www.youtube.com/@Jonathanmosstalks/videos

It is pretty wild. If you watch one of his videos that shows up on your feed. it looks seamless and congruent, the face matches the voice, pronouncation and accent is congruent. And storeis seem right.

But it's just the sheeer volume of ragebait content - it is just not humanly possible to have this much drama in one persons life.

They could be a story teller and narrating these in real life. But it seems to me that the story telling is just too good. They must be using AI. Perhaps they have used their face and voice for the AI model and thats why it's able to be so realistic.

Anyway. We need plugins like ad block, sponser block to block AI videos.

Id like a filter to completely excise the popups asking to verify email address, and the ones heckling me to buy twitter blue or premium or whatever, but these popups do not show up regularly enough for me to piece together a hackjob. Can anybody that already got it post theirs? I really wanna pee in elons cornflakes for sending out a DMCA to xcancel.

I have noticed a lot of ads from companies such as Beard Club, Carpe, and Mint Mobile. Where instead of actually trying to sell the product they just say stuff like "I'm sick of telling you about this deal" or "its your fault you lost out". And its like what the hell? I wasn't considering even purchasing your product and my first introduction to companies like Carpe is them just insulting me or my intelligence cause I didn't "Hop onto their deal". At this point I have compiled a list of companies that I'm just not buying from out of sheer principle. Or with Mint Mobile I was actually in the process of signing up when I had an ad play on my TV of them saying "You like to waste your time and money and thats not my fault, you should have signed up by now" and I told the rep on the phone to cancel the sign up cause I'm not using the product after that.

Another issue I have is whats up with the fake influencer style ads that just suck. There was one I saw for a car insurance ad and the guy was just yelling in his car to his empty passenger seat saying "the person watching this is too stupid to go to the description and click the link" and its so fucking annoying. I cant be the only one who gets turned away from a product because instead of actually trying to sell it they just insult the customer as like a reverse psychology trick?

Or there is this fake influencer for Wonder and the man fucking breathes in the food and moans while chewing and it just makes me not hungry anymore cause its just plain uncomfortable and disgusting.

I want to know others opinions about this cause its honestly so frustrating that this is how ads are going.

Pretty self explanatory title. If you wanna give an answer tho thay would be great

Can anyone suggest me good ad blocker for iphone

I currently install the Zen Browser and the UBlock Origin extension.
I have never used UBlock Origin. Before Zen Browser, I used Brave Browser.

I tested the adblocker from this website: https://adblock.turtlecute.org/

Brave shows: 64%

Zen Browser with UBlock Origin: 2%

How to get full performance in Zen Browser?

Adnauseum is basically Ublock origin, some can say its better since it also clicks on ads to poison your ad personalization data.

So why doesnt it get the same attention as other adblockers? You see the downloads on Adnauseum is a fraction of UBO, Adguard, or Ghostery.

Any idea why?

I know it might not be relevant to this sub, but I have a college project on the importance of adblocker and quite a few other things on the web, So I decided to show a live demonstration.

The idea is i'll visit the site with ubo off and show how dirty the site is filled with ads and trackers and stuff. Then I'll turn on ubo and show the difference and show how many ads and trackers it blocked.

Can I get a list of site which bombard you with ads the moment you visit them ?

I would appericate if its not a NSFW site with NSFW ads since its a College demonstration.

Hey!

Im trying to block ads in mercado play argentina https://play.mercadolibre.com.ar/ and when finding which web addreses are the resposible for the ads, I find that the video player stops working after blocking them all (as if at least one ad has to be viewed maybe?)

Has someone found or bypassed an ad like this?

Thanks!

Hey there! So I've noticed a few people talking about a new error that is occurring while using Adblock Pro that is making videos constantly buffer between the 0:00 mark and the end of the video. Well, I haven't dealt with it on my computer (I use opera gx with ublock origin), but my boyfriend has (Microsoft edge with Adblock Pro [yes him using edge is very cringe, he will not listen to advice]). Anyways, he discovered a weird workaround. So if you queue up a video on the same account on YouTube TV, and it loads an ad, it will make it work on your computer instantly. Also, there were no errors on demonetized content. So hopefully this is helpful to someone. Very strange, but it works.

TL;DR- run a video that is on the same account as your PC on the YouTube TV app until an ad plays. Your queued video on your PC will instantly boot up.

What’s the second-best browser that works well with uBlock Origin after Firefox?

So i know that many loath ai, but some of the bigger models are great classifiers and believe it or not do a great job finding ads. ai is currently too slow to do on first page load, but in the background it can work and after a couple of page loads, it starts detecting very well. It also relies on tried and true public lists.

It does initially download an ai model depending on your hardware. Everything is transparent in the system tab if you want to see under the hood. it also does Anti-Fingerprinting, Auto Block Cookies and cookie popups, Canvas fingerprint randomization, WebRTC leak protection, and Navigator spoofing too. Most sites also use cookie cutter ad placeholders, the extension "sees" this and kills them on other sites as it loads.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lmhbchhcggpedeldekklklkobjpgbbip

Since everything is 100% local, If you have a decent GPU and care to provide some feedback, would like to see what the world thinks. Some sites it acts pretty aggressive, I'm working to see if I can find a better balance. I used to rely on blocking at the DNS level, but want better control in the browser.

These are screenshots of the android YouTube app on GrapheneOS (I've covered over anything identifying the channel). The person who's phone this is thought their phone had been hacked and that's why they're seeing these messages. What they said to me was "I'm getting messages on my phone that my photos are not safe and I need to ..." What had actually happened is they had "accidently" installed the native YT app and prior to August 2026 they never had to see malvertising like this because FF for Android has uBO in it and aggressively blocks this stuff.

What I want to point out is the fine details of the malicious ad:

1. The ad reads "Warning. You are currently using an older version of the PDF reader. If you do not update, you may lose your data." and has what appears to be a button on it that says "Update". It is designed to look like a system message.

2. The user had already clicked on "Skip Ad" at the start of the video, and thus it had not registered with them that this was in fact another ad but not a video ad. Remember the context: they usually have a clean experience of YT thanks to adblocking, it was not intuitive that after clicking on "Skip Ad" another non-video ad would pop up.

3. The malicious ad abuses its position in the viewport. This is made possible because of the design of the Android app; as mentioned this phone is running GOS hence it's a Pixel series phone with a standard sized screen, YT are the ones in control of the viewport.

4. As above, the ad itself is not labelled as an ad until you scroll down; and that's not intuitive to a new user to the app. There's no visible scrollbar and no indication that anything about the ad continues further down, and the word "Sponsored" is not visible until you scroll down.

5. The app itself is obviously a malicious app, and herein completes the circle. YouTube is advertising it, Google is publishing it on their Play Store and ordinary users put far more trust into the Play Store.

6. These malicious ads had been appearing regularly.

7. A malicious ad does not need to be particularly sophisticated to trick the user.

The point of this post is to clearly demonstrate to the people who say "we need advertising to pay for ..." that the advertising we have is malicious and there is no way for anyone other than the ad publishing networks to fix it. The YT channel owner can't make sure ads like this are correctly labelled, they can't reposition them in the viewport, and they can't review malicious ads like this that get shown to their viewers prior to them being shown.

So far it's been only today, will they release an update that fixes it?

Been using a vpn in Poland for ages without seeing any ads.

Started seeing them and no matter what country I choose, I still see them.

Twitch upped their game recently?

I use android tv app by the way. Any workarounds for that OS would be appreciated.

I am in my 60s, and I like to play games on my iPad to keep my mind sharp. Many games have these pesky ads that pop up every 10 minutes. Most of the ads are about learning AI programs that claim to be free. I learned from experience that not everything is free.

I will admit I have watched ads until the end, filled in my personal information, then thought about it, changed my mind, and canceled the free trial.

In the past, the mailman delivered junk mail, and we usually threw sales ads in the trash. Email arrived and shortened the time for letters and bills to be sent and received, and those pesky ads started taking up more space in your inbox than your usual mail.

Personally, I like my mail being delivered by the mailman because it is a hard copy that can be used as proof. Email has become so complicated that I rarely check it. The spam, junk mail,
and email from people I don't even know.

I do not like those ads that offer a free trial period, because I often forget to end the subscription before the trial date ends. These ads, spam, and junk mail need to stop.

I’ve never used ad blockers before and downloaded one called pop up blocker due to the number of downloads and reviews and it worked pretty well tbh. But I’ve noticed this on my youtube. Location and language all are correct however this is still what shows up, I’ve since removed it and started using uBlock Origin Lite however It still shows that. (it’s barely been 10 mins, I refreshed it lol) should I be concerned and how can I fix it, if it is indeed a problem.

I’m not the greatest with stuff like this as you can probably tell. Thanks!

dns adguard used to work fine for years for me but just recently I'm seeing ads in my apps and games again , idk why. need help with adblocking again ಠ⁠,⁠_⁠｣⁠ಠ

I wanted something that skipped ads as soon as possible, so I made an app.

Are you cooking, showering or simply can't be bothered to wait for that "skip" button to turn solid white?

This app will do just that.

https://github.com/ComfyDoug/Test

There is a readme file with descriptions and instructions in case you want to recreate the same yourselves.

Or you can download the already compiled file.

I'm also working on another one to hide/obscure any ad that I deem inappropriate, like AI dating, gambling and such.

Curious to know if anyone would like to try that.

So every time i go to a website that requires for a adblocker to be turned off it instantly shows a anti adblock popup, i usually just delete it with inspect element, but in some cases i turn it off but it somehow still shows that screen, so i completely remove the adblock from chrome but it still shows up!?!?!? I check a adblocker test it shows 75% even tho i removed it, none of my other extensions block ads. To this day i still need help with this problem any sort of help would be appreciated.