Since YT have ramped up their anti adblock campaign, what are you successfully using to block ads with?
Firefox and Ublock Origin stops it completely.
Wow, yep, that's working for me too...for now...🤞
Thank you!
On Android phone, I use revanced. On Android TV I use Smarttube and on PC I rarely use YT but firefox and Ublock Origin still seem to be doing the trick.
If dont mind, i would like to elevate this question to entire LAN ?
Is there means to do that for entire network? TV's geting bloated.
Have you heard of Pi-hole?
Just installing it now, will see what it does...
I'm using Fadblock. It does work, you get flashes of adverts occasionally but it also seems to slow loading of youtube a little, but videos play as normal?
A YouTube subscription via turkey that costs something ridiculously cheap like 2 euro!
Mine is Indian.
Download a 30 day trial of a VPN and get YouTube premium family for 2.20 a month for 5 accounts.
Doesn't block youtube ads
It's a beautifully made but ultimately useless yoke
Considering how much Youtube is watched on mobile devices, I'm wondering exactly how much energy Youtube are going to really put into cracking down on users watching on desktop with an adblocker. That's like a minority of a minority. I know that shareholders are always keen to squeeze every drop of dividend out of an investment, but I just don't know if the ensuing game of whac-a-mole will be worth it.
Added that to chrome, refreshed youtube, and voila! Ads are gone. Thank you!
yeah...
in-video ad's still there. This is running as default install, no unbound set. However, dont see how would it do even with unbound.
One good thing i see - list of blocked requests, bad - dont see how to export it, not yet anyway.
How do you 'add' something to Chrome?
Edit: sorry I use Opera on mobile. Ignore.
On advice from Oulwans and Oulfellas thread I am using Brave (laptop, Windows 11) which produces a 'sub-browser' something to do with Ghostery (I think) which allows the video to be played. However I just went back to check something and You Tube was playing (Brave) no problem - I opened four videos with no issues and no ads. No idea how long that will last.
Its an "extension" you are adding go to the link I posted above and see how it works. You can disable it or uninstall it if you don't like it.
From the same link you can search for other extensions to add.
They are going to target both
Again, it's a got to be a minority of YT users who are running either rooted phones with a system-wide adblocker or else Re-vanced or something like that, but because of the higher number of users overall, it's going to be a larger amount in that minority. I could see why it would be worth their while in that case, but people watching Youtube on desktop a lot are probably more serious about their tech, and it's just going to be a runaround for Google unless they really get draconian with it.
I watch a lot of Youtube on desktop. It's not really an option for me to boycott the site with the amount of content it has. Therefore, if Youtube do get serious with it, I'm thinking of just playing Youtube on a browser in a virtual machine. Sure the ads will play, but I can mute the virtual machine and minimise it while they do. An inelegant and extreme solution to an inelegant and extreme problem.
Brave browser seems to be perfect for YouTube.
I have it on my android tablet as well as my Windows pcs.
Opera vanilla web browser is working away fine for me on PC. It has an inbuilt add blocker.
Ok, for those who dont want to change their browser from FF or install any extra bits...
in your firewall block
googleads.g.doubleclick.net
yt running no ads for last half hour so far, will see how it goes further.... and have to test TV's too
:D
sorted for now.
Weird thing that i had
already blocked, needed full line in addition to work
...any idea how to add this to avast firewall?
I did that on my router so entire LAN is covered.
I have to say this might not be permanent solution. i just added another url:
static.doubleclick.net
Have to test and see if wild card would be accepted - consumer router
In Avast, as far i can see, its under content filtering (navigate to Policies > Content Filtering) but cant confirm - not using it
Some joy of 1+ hour video without an single break...
This has to be the worst bot yet.
give them a break, theyre clearly lonely, winter can be tough, even for bots....
And he'll be a little bit lonelier now that I've sitebanned him.
poor little fecker....
Just think of it as another form of adblocking, and thus perfectly on-topic for this thread.
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