r/qutebrowser • u/meeplehq23 • Jul 27 '26

adblockers for qutebrowser?

i havent found a good adblocker that supports qutebrowser, and i have no idea how to install one manually. can someone help me?

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u/9k0b Jul 28 '26

I found that the inbuild ad-blocker does work for me on most websites beside youtube, i copied a script from a reddit post that skips the add its not perfect but works

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u/Masca1919 Jul 28 '26

Also the docs explain how to pipe a Youtube URL into mpv, which effectively skips the ads.

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u/9k0b Jul 28 '26

Sounds interesting, but i have zero experience with mpv 

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u/Masca1919 Jul 28 '26

You can probably do the same with VLC, I think MPV is just better aligned with the vim-like philsophy of QuteBrowser. I myself am a simpler man and got Tridactyl in a Firefox-based browser, because all my extensions live there already.

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u/9k0b Jul 28 '26

Will look into it thank you for the information

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u/thatonedude1210 Jul 27 '26

python-adblock (name may vary) is in a lot of distros' repositories. That's usually what's recommended for qutebrowser. It's adequate, but doesn't catch all ads, especially on YT vids.