Ad blocker appreciation thread

[Curry Teafag]

YouTube works without issues on Chrome for me, using ABP, µBO, and 'Improve YouTube!' as my ad-blocking plugins.
Until a few months ago, there used to be occasional anti-adblocker campaigns on YT, but that seems to have stopped.

 

[JohnnyG]

So I've noticed a new Youtube quirk on Brave browser: maybe 20% of the time it'll get stuck in a little refresh loop, with the counter flickering between 0:00 / 0:00 and the actual time, and a "Connection interrupted? Find out why" notification.

If I switch to another tab, most of the time it'll start playing and I can go back to it, but a portion of the time it just gets stuck in that refresh cycle repeatedly. Not sure if youtube/ad fuckery, or my computer (pretty modern AMD cpu with gobs of ram).

This is what it'll flicker between while refreshing/loading continuously. Anyone else encounter this?

 

[We Are The Witches]

I use YouTube on Brave as well. Do you also have an issue where fullscreen videos drop frames or briefly freeze every 10 seconds on mobile?

I don't use YT on mobile.

 

[Stasi]

Might need to give revanced a try. I've been using new pipe for years but YouTube seems to be doing some bullshit where it blocks your IP and flags it as a potential bot if you play too many videos without logging in.

I'll also need to create a new burner account, I use it on an old Amazon fire tablet to play shit before going to sleep and I don't want my main account recommendation feed to get clogged with "4 hour rain noise" videos.

 

[Recreational Polluter]

The internet is nearly unusable without an adblocker. I don’t know how the niggercattle do it without blowing their brains out. I appreciate the fuck out of adblockers every single day.

I primarily use Firefox with uBlock Origin on my desktop, although from time to time I consider trying an alternative like librewolf or waterfox. I am not as serious about the privacy side of things as long as I don’t have to see ads.

On mobile (iOS) I’m on the Brave bandwagon lately but have had a decent experience in the last with an app called Purify for mobile Safari.

 

[moosemeese]

Orion browser for iOS has native ad blocker, no telemetry, and you can add Chrome and Firefox extensions. The beta is better than the official release imo.

 

[Rozzy]

I can recommend EFF's Privacy Badger, although not promoted as an ad blocker it does an excellent job at blocking advertisements.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Brave still has MV3

 

[Flatline]

I can recommend EFF's Privacy Badger, although not promoted as an ad blocker it does an excellent job at blocking advertisements.

There are privacy settings in Firefox and Brave that make Privacy Badger obsolete.

 

[HairyBadger]

If you are in the Apple-sphere try 1blocker, doesn't work on the IOS Youtube app, but for web it is good.

 

[singlele]

So I've noticed a new Youtube quirk on Brave browser: maybe 20% of the time it'll get stuck in a little refresh loop, with the counter flickering between 0:00 / 0:00 and the actual time, and a "Connection interrupted? Find out why" notification.

If I switch to another tab, most of the time it'll start playing and I can go back to it, but a portion of the time it just gets stuck in that refresh cycle repeatedly. Not sure if youtube/ad fuckery, or my computer (pretty modern AMD cpu with gobs of ram).

This is what it'll flicker between while refreshing/loading continuously. Anyone else encounter this?
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I'm experiencing the same issue. For context I'm using Brave with its adblock plus uBlock Origin. I'm trying to set Brave's own adblock to Aggressive and turning off uBlock Origin to see how that affects things. So far it seems promising, haven't gotten any ads after trying it on things from music to sports videos. Be sure not to disable scripts, though.

 

[Curry Teafag]

I'm experiencing the same issue. For context I'm using Brave with its adblock plus uBlock Origin. I'm trying to set Brave's own adblock to Aggressive and turning off uBlock Origin to see how that affects things. So far it seems promising, haven't gotten any ads after trying it on things from music to sports videos. Be sure not to disable scripts, though.

You need to fast forward 10-20 seconds, so it can buffer a bit, then jump back to 0. It should work then.

 

[JohnnyG]

For context I'm using Brave with its adblock plus uBlock Origin. I'm trying to set Brave's own adblock to Aggressive and turning off uBlock Origin

I didn't think it was my ad blocker because it only happens to a fraction of videos, maybe every 10th, but now I'm wondering if it's the monetization of the video. I've had Brave Shields + uBlock Origin with the same settings for ages, but when I turned off Brave shields for youtube (leaving uBlock up), the videos would load fine, with no ads.

You need to fast forward 10-20 seconds, so it can buffer a bit

For this particular issue, it wouldn't load enough for that. The timer would flicker from (say) 0:00 / 12:34 to 0:00 / 0:00 every half second or so, and all the controls would do the same. IE no way to skip ahead, reduce resolution, anything but watch it refresh repeatedly.

 

[Stella d'Oro]

The internet is nearly unusable without an adblocker.

I'm old enough to remember how bad it was in the 1990s and early 00s with banner ends, sidebar ads, endless popups, and toolbars. People got so sick of it that the first iteration of ad blockers, which were really just popup blockers, were developed. Back then the advertisers actually took notice and for a while ads became rather unobtrusive, you'd see the odd Google AdWords blue text and maybe a single banner ad but nothing more. Now it's like we've come full circle and the advertisers have forgotten those lessons from two decades ago and are shocked that almost everyone is running an adblocker.

Instead of fighting adblockers, how about making ads unobtrusive again?

 

[dick brain]

I'm old enough to remember how bad it was in the 1990s and early 00s with banner ends, sidebar ads, endless popups, and toolbars. People got so sick of it that the first iteration of ad blockers, which were really just popup blockers, were developed. Back then the advertisers actually took notice and for a while ads became rather unobtrusive, you'd see the odd Google AdWords blue text and maybe a single banner ad but nothing more. Now it's like we've come full circle and the advertisers have forgotten those lessons from two decades ago and are shocked that almost everyone is running an adblocker.

Instead of fighting adblockers, how about making ads unobtrusive again?

There is no better evidence of this than the fact that, despite the entire internet unanimously agreeing a quarter century ago that popups and spam fucking suck and everyone hates it, somehow every god damn fucking website now once again has an inbuilt popup asking you to sign up to their spam mailing list.

 

[Curry Teafag]

There is no better evidence of this than the fact that, despite the entire internet unanimously agreeing a quarter century ago that popups and spam fucking suck and everyone hates it, somehow every god damn fucking website now once again has an inbuilt popup asking you to sign up to their spam mailing list.

That too, can be done away with using ad blockers. They're also useful to get access to articles behind lazily designed paywalls that are just a simple overlay.

 

[Super De Quico]

I use brave on both mobile AND desktops.

Always used, and don't plan to stop doing so.

 

[Eric T Duckman]

I'm a huge fan of them and have been since finding out about Pi-hole over a decade ago. The ability to have custom lists is nice along with the option to use it when you're out and about via a remote connection back to your Pi-hole (or apparently hosting it) has become a sanity saver with the modern web.

I can recall the early days of the internet where there was a company that would pay you to essentially keep a banner ad up on your computer as long as you moused over it to refill a bar every now and then. Amazing that we've gone from that to websites being essentially unusable without an ad blocker. I find it ironic that the sites complain about lost revenue and then spend money on an anti ad blocker service (Admiral) instead of fixing the problem.