Stop Youtube ads

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48k

14,757 posts

160 months

Sunday 16th March
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Mr-B said:
My WIN 10 laptop did a windows update this morning and chrome updated itself too but the ublock origin is still working as of now.
That's good to know, I might try and reinstall chrome and see if it will allow me to install ublock origin because it has worked a treat for years. Meantime I've switched to Brave browser.

BrownEaredDog

919 posts

113 months

Sunday 16th March
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48k said:
That's good to know, I might try and reinstall chrome and see if it will allow me to install ublock origin because it has worked a treat for years. Meantime I've switched to Brave browser.
As I mentioned, UBO is no longer available on Chrome Web Store - a reinstall won't fix that. UBO Lite is still there and compatible with Manifest v.3; it works fine for blocking most ads.

48k

14,757 posts

160 months

Monday 17th March
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BrownEaredDog said:
48k said:
That's good to know, I might try and reinstall chrome and see if it will allow me to install ublock origin because it has worked a treat for years. Meantime I've switched to Brave browser.
As I mentioned, UBO is no longer available on Chrome Web Store - a reinstall won't fix that. UBO Lite is still there and compatible with Manifest v.3; it works fine for blocking most ads.
Yep as I mentioned UBO is marked as verboten I'm just curious as to how it's still working for Mr B cos mine stopped working which is how I noticed it was no longer allowed.

stevemcs

9,295 posts

105 months

Monday 17th March
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Ours has stopped working too, I’ve downloaded the lite version and see how that goes.

Zio Di Roma

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671 posts

44 months

Monday 17th March
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I tried various options suggested above, but to no avail. A problem that persisted was videos not playing as the extension battled YT ads for supremacy.

Currently, Adblock for Youtube and Adblock Plus / Chrome is working. I DO briefly get a message saying "ad blockers aren't allowed on Youtube" but it disappears rapidly as one of my blockers wrestles it to the ground.

So, at the moment, so far so good.

Vsix and Vtec

903 posts

30 months

Monday 17th March
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I only have ABP installed currently since UBO got killed off. YouTube actively turns off ABP when I go to play a video, and I have to pause the video, re-enable ABP and refresh the video to kill the adverts. Huge faff compared to before which was seamless blocking.

ben5575

6,862 posts

233 months

Monday 17th March
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See page 1 - just install Brave browser.

Forget extensions, it just works straight out the box. It's easy to transfer bookmarks if that's a concern.

Ham_and_Jam

2,999 posts

109 months

Tuesday 18th March
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ben5575 said:
See page 1 - just install Brave browser.

Forget extensions, it just works straight out the box. It's easy to transfer bookmarks if that's a concern.
I made the switch to Brave on my iPhone last weekend after seeing this thread. What a revelation. Wished I had switched a lot earlier.

It makes browsing the internet feel like it did years ago. Also like the fact it removes another of my bugbears - cookie consent pop ups smile

Thoroughly recommended

Edited by Ham_and_Jam on Tuesday 18th March 14:47

Mr-B

4,013 posts

206 months

Tuesday 18th March
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48k said:
BrownEaredDog said:
48k said:
That's good to know, I might try and reinstall chrome and see if it will allow me to install ublock origin because it has worked a treat for years. Meantime I've switched to Brave browser.
As I mentioned, UBO is no longer available on Chrome Web Store - a reinstall won't fix that. UBO Lite is still there and compatible with Manifest v.3; it works fine for blocking most ads.
Yep as I mentioned UBO is marked as verboten I'm just curious as to how it's still working for Mr B cos mine stopped working which is how I noticed it was no longer allowed.
Just tested it and still working. As soon as it/if it stops I will shift to something else, either the lite version or Brave.