Youtube | Block Ads with Native Ad Blocker
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Thank you, and yeah, even if Ublock only ever works part of the time, that's something.
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@clifffraser I didn't understand your comparison with Firefox since Firefox doesn't have a native adblock, just an anti-tracker feature. Anyway, that being said, Vivaldi's Adblock, despite blocking a lot of things, is very weak against adblock detection features. On my Vivaldi I use adguard and only leave Vivaldi's anti-tracker on and I'm using YouTube without any problems. You can also use the powerful Ublock Origin, but keep in mind that after the arrival of MV3 (Manifest v3) it may not be as powerful anymore. Anyway, use adguard or ublock origin and clear the cache before testing YouTube with them. I hope that in the future Vivaldi will support extensions in its mobile version so that I can use a more powerful adblock like Adguard (which I already use) or Ublock Origin itself.
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@Zalex108 said in Youtube | Block Ads with Native Ad Blocker:
care of the Lists
Where to look for “update all used blocklists”? On
vivaldi://settings/privacy/
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AFAIK,
They update independently.But they would be outdated or deprecated.
Current AdBlocker is very basic and on Mobile very inconvenient to manage.Hopefully, this will change soon.
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@barbudo2005: thank you for that, but I ran into an issue when I went to download UBlock. Every time I try to install it, I'm redirected to a page to add it to Chrome, and I don't see Vivaldi listed as a browser that supports it. So I don't know whether it's even possible for me to use it without having to change browsers.
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@CStallone always download extensions from the chrome store:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm -
@Hadden89: okay, but how will adding it to Chrome enable it to work on Vivaldi?
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@CStallone In the chrome store there is a blue add button on top right. If you don't see it, please check this setting is enabled, restart vivaldi and retry:
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Look this link:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#ublock-origin
"BEWARE! uBO is (and has always been) COMPLETELY UNRELATED to the website ublock.org"
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@barbudo2005 said in Youtube | Block Ads with Native Ad Blocker:
uBO is (and has always been) COMPLETELY UNRELATED
History Time:
Yes and not. Totally yes for the website. Ublock too originally was made for most part by Gorhill of which he was the main contributor but for stress/burnout he left the ownership of the repo to his former co-developer. Then divergences started to emerge and Ublock Origin fork has born but sadly the confusing matter of the name can't be solved anymore as Ublock wanted to keep its name
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@barbudo2005: thank you for the heads up, but I'm on the link from @Hadden89. So I'm pretty sure it'll be the real thing I'll be installing.
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@Hadden89: interesting. No, I'm at the link you posted in another tab and there's no add button. I'll try and install it tonight, and let you know how it turned out. And thanks for being as helpful as you've been!
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@CStallone yeah, use uBlock Origin .. In short, uBlock is not fake but cooperates with ad platforms (like AdblockerPlus) so there is a small conflict of interests :3
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I just thought of something, and this might be a stupid question but - could a VPN disguise the use of an ad blocker from YouTube?
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@CStallone Not a stupid question at all. A VPN actually could trigger more or different ads / anti ad systems - because google has different ways to interact based on the user country - and even captchas verifications, especially if the user is logged and seen from different countries in brief periods.
So yeah, as you can figure, g00gle can be very annoying on these matters
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@Hadden89: well I've heard that Japanese advertising is pretty crazy, so...
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Vivaldi's adblocker used to be strong. But nowadays you cannot view any video on Youtube and Dailymotion because both directly detect Vivaldi's adblocker! Same problem with UBlock Origin by the way... It is very frustrating to have to deactivate Vivaldi's adblocker to be able to watch a video. Can't it be improved?
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@barbudo2005 text in that pic is too small and almost not readable, try to explain what you want to communicate here, thanks