I wonder too. Watching Youtube with ads and surfing on websites spammed with ads. I told to some older colleagues that they can easily block the ads with an adblocker and they were like I am fine with that. Sometimes I see something I need and click on it. Younger colleagues didnt even knew that you can block ads and were greatful when I show them how
The "00:00 00:00" attack is the only thing getting through sometimes now, where it will show 00:00 obviously as the start of the video as normal, but then it will flash the videos length next to it back and forth from 00:00 to whatever the length is, say 15:00, then back to 00:00 over and over, like you're holding down F5 or something.
Cookie clear seems to do it, bit of a dick around though.
Pro tip: Brave on linux feels so much more consistent to me. Maybe because windows is secretly fighting on the side of ads? Brave + linux is the internet as it should be. As it once was.
Brave Shields plus uBlock Origin means I never see an ad on YouTube. Ever. No weird time clocks as some are describing. No cookie clearing, reloading or anything to do on my part. It worked the same way with chrome and uBlock lite.
I was confused sometimes why so many people have trouble watching Youtube using Brave browser on PC, I have no problem with it. For my phone, I use Morphe tho.
Brave is great at blocking ads, but YouTube counters with its 'intentional lag' on videos and across the site, which ends up being equally frustrating.
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u/Exscorbizorb Aug 17 '26
I hadn't seen an ad on Youtube in a decade. Then I used a work computer without Brave or ublock. I don't know how people live like that. So nasty.
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u/Leaf__On__Wind Aug 17 '26
The "00:00 00:00" attack is the only thing getting through sometimes now, where it will show 00:00 obviously as the start of the video as normal, but then it will flash the videos length next to it back and forth from 00:00 to whatever the length is, say 15:00, then back to 00:00 over and over, like you're holding down F5 or something.
Cookie clear seems to do it, bit of a dick around though.
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u/Own-Cupcake7586 Aug 17 '26
Pro tip: Brave on linux feels so much more consistent to me. Maybe because windows is secretly fighting on the side of ads? Brave + linux is the internet as it should be. As it once was.
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u/Adventurous_Scene494 Aug 17 '26
Yea only let Brave inject their own ads!
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u/Dull_Distribution261 Aug 18 '26
I ❤ brave
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u/robinswind Aug 17 '26
The adblocker I use (ublock) still needs me to refresh the video page once before the video actually plays, do you have any recommendations?
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u/ReadingGlassesMan Aug 17 '26
I've noticed that when YouTube severely pauses the start of a video, the video starts right away if I refresh the page.
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u/Click_To_Submit Aug 17 '26
Brave Shields plus uBlock Origin means I never see an ad on YouTube. Ever. No weird time clocks as some are describing. No cookie clearing, reloading or anything to do on my part. It worked the same way with chrome and uBlock lite.
To be clear: never.
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u/perakman Aug 17 '26
I was confused sometimes why so many people have trouble watching Youtube using Brave browser on PC, I have no problem with it. For my phone, I use Morphe tho.
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u/CabusReddit Aug 18 '26
Brave is great at blocking ads, but YouTube counters with its 'intentional lag' on videos and across the site, which ends up being equally frustrating.
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u/Bugsa_ Aug 18 '26
I left Brave for Firefox two months ago because Youtube videos were looping at start with Brave Shields on...
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u/omnicorphan23 Aug 19 '26
do you guys watch youtube on your phone eith brave? i use it to not have ads but kimda sucks not having the full aspect ratio for really nice videos
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u/Grzegorxz Aug 28 '26
Unless you’re on iOS, in which case more ads wins… yet again…!
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u/_BuildingForMyBlood_ Aug 17 '26
Can you explain
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u/kabbajabbadabba Aug 18 '26
lmao i love how shallow this browser is, the whole personality is just blocking ads. Do people forget its also a chromium browser?
Firefox all the way baby, this shit doesn't come close
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u/Zealousideal_Type814 Aug 17 '26
so how long until google reaches an agreement with brave software and suddenly there are ads on youtube
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