Decent adblockers for Youtube

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I had to go through these motions again last night alright, but it worked again after:

U-block - settings - empty cache - update now.

Then either just Ctrl + F5 the YT video you wanted to watch, or failing that restart Firefox.

[Bürggermeister]

Ah, nice one, Chris, that did the trick.

[leoos]

Is anyone using the Brave browser.
I'm using that and haven't had any ad action on Youtube.
I have no other adblocking extensions loaded.

[astfgyl]

I find adblock plus better than ublock

[Carnage]

Might be worth uprating ReVanced if you're using it, it went down for me earlier. Reinstalled it and it's working fine again.

[Born of Fire]

Had to do the same myself, couldn't stomach going back to regular YouTube after years of using Vanced and ReVanced.

Handy step by step guide here if anyone needs it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/s/bJqpqjgF3U

[Carnage]

Did the ReVanced app appear as Youtube to you ie. identical in the app menu and the icon on your homescreen is the Youtube one? That happened the last time I updated it (a few weeks ago), today I just uninstalled it and installed it from scratch and ut's the same.

Edit: Disregard, the last paragraph on that link you posted confirms that it's standard for ReVanced. I preferred the ReVanced icon TBH.

[Born of Fire]

Yeah the separate YT ReVanced icon used to be simpler but I'm guessing they had to change it in order for the patch to function correctly. Just means you need to take a couple extra seconds to make sure you're selecting the correct YT version when disabling the original YT app.

[hellfire]

Is anyone using the Brave browser.
I'm using that and haven't had any ad action on Youtube.
I have no other adblocking extensions loaded.

I use it regularly. I also use Proton VPN with Wireguard enabled. I have Brave set with every security tweak on an use Vanadium for sites like this that I want to save the login on. Firefox can be great too if you take the time to tweak it. As a rule I won't use browser add-ons especially if they are free.

[astfgyl]

What's the problem with the free ones? Asking because I use them and think they're better than dealing with ads.

Also I dunno if anyone has noticed but when you first install an ad block it's like going back in time

[hellfire]

It's worth pointing out that I am a complete paranoid about these things. The problem I have with free ones is that nothing is really free. In order for an ad-blocker to work it has to examine every link you go to regardless of whether or not the site contains ads. A complete index of everything. Even if the developers are honest, browser extensions are the first thing to get done attacked. You could go round in circles and end up doing nothing online by following my advice too.

[astfgyl]

Ah I'm odd enough myself that way. I actually go to the bother of turning off the cookies every time I go to any site even though I know it won't make a blind bit of difference to how tracked I am

[hellfire]

Have a look at that Brave browser mentioned previously. It's basically a fork of Chrome that is at war with cookies and trackers.

[Carnage]

Might be worth uprating ReVanced if you're using it, it went down for me earlier. Reinstalled it and it's working fine again.

This again. Updated and it's perfect again. I presume that Youtube are upping their game to try to stay ahead of the hacks.

[Giggles]

Another Revanced update is out, in case anybody is having issues.