Ublock plus pihole are still going strong, no ads or banners yet, fingers crossed
Yeah also on firefox
YouTube Unhook has started failing to auto-click the Skip Ad button as of today, I noticed.
Firefox + ublock still works perfectly fine for me.
I uninstalled and reinstalled ublock and restarted my computer and it worked amazingly. I’m sorry if it doesn’t for you! Like others said, try clearing cookies/history/errything.
NewPipe x SponsorBlock
I love newpipe! I wonder if there’s anything similar for desktop?
I didn’t know bro, I just use desktop sometimes but I use brave if I need to see a YouTube video, it works WO any problem with the stock adblocker.
There is, it’s called FreeTube. I use it all the time.
Thanks!
Piped.video
I had good luck with paying for YouTube Premium. Can use a VPN to get it so dirt cheap I wouldn’t bother with working around it.
take a look at which mag you’re on, and then think about if any of us want to pay to block ads.
I’m perfectly aware. Everyone keeps saying that piracy is a convenience issue but people seem to go great lengths to get YouTube for free given how expensive it is to run and how much value it provides.
For how much “value” it provides (shareholders) they seem very keen on squeezing even more out of it. Why should we make their job easier? They certainly don’t make their content creators jobs easier.
It’s telling that you’re completly skipping over content creators.
unpopular answer: youtube premium as bundled with a wider google subscription, aka Google One or the like
This is (sadly) the way. Use a VPN to get a better deal in another country as well for extra bang for the buck
Well well well… We have a Google fanboy here.
While you at it, route all your traffic though Google’s new and shiny proxy, for that extra privacy peace of mind. /s
I will just stop using youtube (unless necessary and I deal with the ads the 2x monthly I use it for “how to replace radiator 2002 camry” or similar) before I pay them.
I’m on someone else’s Google One, so I get it for free. For now, that means I can run yt-dlp on those pesky premium-only videos, which is nice.
You’re in the wrong forum
I use FireFox + uBlock Origin, and never see ads. I did have to disable my other adblock/privacy extensions (DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, PrivacyBadger, and Ghostery) for YouTube before its anti-adblock stopped complaining, but FF+uBO seems to work just fine with default filters enabled.
Yep. 2nd part is important.
The way I solved this was to leave my regular browser setup alone, make a new Firefox profile just for YouTube, install ONLY ublock origin, and create a shortcut to that profile on my desktop.
Now I only use that profile for YouTube. I haven’t seen one ad since this thing started.
these privacy extensions all overlap anyway.
I used AdGuard and never seen it, even when they rolled it out.
I haven’t had a SINGLE adblock message when I use YouTube with Adguard + Ublock origin and the FF “strict” option for privacy.
But I also don’t log into any accounts.
My wife was getting messages all the time (logged in) with the same adblockers. I installed an add-on that speeds up ads so fast that you don’t even notice them. LOL Problem solved!
I’m logged in and it works with pihole, ublock and Firefox.
I’m still just using Firefox and ublock origin…
inconvenient but cobalt.tools
SponsorBlock is really good for dealing with the “this video was brought to you by” ads. There are also some other extensions that will either auto-press the “Skip Ad” button when possible, and others that will treat it like a podcast app and just change the playback speed for the ads to some really really fast speeds. So the ads are still present, but are over in seconds.
Using Chrome and uBlock for work, no issues.
Firefox and uBlock for personal, no issues.
Try only using uBlock, uninstall all other extensions. Works great for me on both Firefox and Chrome.
I’m sure there’s a better fix, but I found that if I block the pop up, I can’t click anything on the screen EXCEPT I can right click and do picture in picture and can play and do everything I need. If I go back, I can at least see what I want to watch, click it, then do pip.
FUCK ADS
