YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker
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@electryon, as workarround complementing the Vivaldi Blocker I use an Element Picker script (WebEraser) as extension. Works pretty well. As said, I don't not longer trust the Chrome Store in these things.
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@Catweazle I am using Vivaldi's built in Adblocker for custom filtering.
I just create my own filter list and I make sure it is ABP compatible.
Vivaldi's can even read local filter lists, you don't have to upload your custom list.
My issue is all the workrounds I have to make for making that list compatible with ABP syntax:)
There is no support even for 3rd party frame/script blocking rules in the native adblocker.
There is no middle ground on this or workarounds on this, Vivaldi has to support the current standards in adblocking.
Today an adblocker that is on par with ABP is just not enough.
We can't even remove that annoying ad email in Outlook that Microsoft adds.
Because it needs scriptlets to be removed.
Vivaldi's target group is power users, Chrome targets casual users.
UBOL or Adguard MV3 is enough for casual users.
If Vivaldi after June offers just a ABP compatible adblocker, they will be playing with fire...
I don't think many power users will tolerate to use for long time a built in ABP no matter how much they love Vivaldi.
Eventually they will just look for something else, Brave if they need chromium no matter what, or Firefox, Zen, Floorp etc. -
@electryon, the restrictions from Google are valid for all Chromium Browsers which use the Chrome Store, also Brave.
Only the inbuild features can surround the control from Google. A script loaded from a local file is out of the control from Google, which only can delete extensions from the store as it has done since years (a lot of extensions already in the Store converted in 404 pages).
If Adblocker from the store surpass the Google rules, they will be deleted and disappear from the store and from the browser.
I don't use Outlook nor any other services and apps from M$, except the strict necessarly ones, in a gutted to 1 GB and fast Windows 10, no ads or nags from there since years.
In Windows you can use Portmaster, to control and block all traffic which are not needed or desirable.
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@electryon @Catweazle @barbudo2005 @wintercoast
ok, guys, this was a very interesting discussion, to which I can only add my 2 cents.@barbudo2005 said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:
that Adguard would be a better long-term option than uBOL
for those folks like you worrying about privacy swapping UBO to AdGuard is ridiculous, as AdGuard is backed by Russians, developed by Russians and hosted by Russians, so no trust in them at all. Building privacy based on AdGuard is like fighting fire with gasoline.
@astero said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:
4 sources in total. You are guys saying I should enable more sources to overcome this error, is this right did I get your idea?
so switching back to my questions about managing blocking sources and so on, this did nothing, I still see this warning message.
I am getting from your discussion that now in Vivaldi there is no working built-in adblocker, and If I don't want to install custom extension, the only solution is to whitelist YT, yeah? -
@astero said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:
AdGuard is backed by Russians, developed by Russians and hosted by Russians, so no trust in them at all. Building privacy based on AdGuard is like fighting fire with gasoline.
They're actually now based in Cyprus and subject to GDPR. But, FWIW, Yandex Search is also Russian and is, ironically, the least-politically biased search engine.
Anyway, personally, I'll just go what works for me until it doesn't, and then choose the next best solution.
For YouTube, on desktop, FreeTube is a good ad-free alternative - until it stops working. (I'm not sure whether it can deal with Google's proposed server-side ads.)
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@wintercoast said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:
For YouTube, on desktop, FreeTube is a good ad-free alternative - until it stops working. (I'm not sure whether it can deal with Google's proposed server-side ads.)
It would be nice to have something like FreeTube built-in into the browser. On the phone I use NewPipe, but for desktop there is no similar alternative. Thanks for the FreeTube suggestion, will try it out.
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@astero, since time all YT Front-end have have problems, because can't reproduce a lot of Videos. FreeTube is based on Invidios, the main front-end atacked by Google.
If you search an Video in FreeTube, they are listed, but can't be reproduced (the time in the playline remain in 00:00 --:-- and an X in the middle of the screen.
Because of this I set SMplayer as extern player in FreeTube, it can reproduce almost everything. So in cas of an blocked Video in FreeTube I click on the little square un the lower left corner of the Tumbnail of the Video, with which it open in the SMplayer without problems.
But an inbuild Videoplayer in Vivaldi I don't believe that it is possible at least for YT.
The alternative is to search the Video in Andisearch and watch it there in the search results, sandboxed without ads. -
@Catweazle said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:
that player manipulations look difficult, don't wanna go that way.The alternative is to search the Video in Andisearch and watch it there in the search results, sandboxed without ads.
Andisearch looks like GPT prompt, not like search engine. how do you search video there? Just pasting URL?
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@astero, Andi use AI as search assistant, it was the first AI search long before all others. It use an own LLM, it's not made as Chatbot, it's way different from all others.
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@Catweazle said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:
@astero, Andi use AI as search assistant, it was the first AI search long before all others. It use an own LLM, it's not made as Chatbot, it's way different from all others.
You can search videos with the artist name, band, author or whatever.funny but works. Never thought of using AI chatbot as a YT client, lol. I didn't try for too long, but didn't see any ads. Are you sure Andi filters out the YT-built-in ads when showing us the videos?
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"YouTube revives its Premium Lite plan, but there is a twist: it has ads"
https://adguard.com/en/blog/youtube-premium-lite-plan-ads.html
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@barbudo2005 Sad, that paid services are now polluted with ads. But we can not do anything against such injection in streams.
Perhaps we get no ads if paying 50$ per month
. Or we get them regardless how much we pay.
Monopolists can do such ugly things. They are the new Borg of the Internet – Resistance is futile. -
@DoctorG, the only site which cn be an alternative to YouTube, respect features and content, also with the possibility to monetize for creators, but without all other Google crap, is Odysee. I think, if YT remains in ts crappy business model, more creators will change to Odysee, until now sadly few.
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uBlock Origin is still working on YouTube for me.
𝕏 is an alternate platform, which now allows long-form videos. It seems that content creators currently need a lot of followers and views to begin making money, but top creators seem to be making serious money.
I see no ads (just a regular user), and see no messages about using ad-blockers.
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@Catweazle said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:
thanks, this is very helpful. However I still struggling with Andi search parameters.
You are saying "You can search videos with the artist name, band, author or whatever" but that appeared more tricky than you say.
Let's take an example: I am following some content creator on YT, for example Mr Beast, and every day I am opening youtube to watch his latest video. Quite typical scenario, isn't it?
For this particular scenario Andi seems to be useless, unless you know exact video name, which isn't always the case. Most of the people know only the creator/blogger name, not video name he uploads every day. And this is the usage pattern how I use NewPipe, the NP is able to load the creator channel, subscribe me to the channel and I get notifications when the new videos are issued.
Take a look what Andi found me when I enteredMr Best last video
It showed me some bogus, the video dated a year ago. -
@astero, try asking mr Beast last video 2024, instead of Mr Best last video
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ok, now i did this without a typo and what we see?
another portion of nonsense. Instead of showing me biblical, sci-fi, fantasy or horror interpretations of the word "beast" it assumed (WTF?) that i missed the dot, and suggested me the Australian fast-food chain B.East. Seriously???@Catweazle said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:
above the most accurat one and the most private
No offence, but this chatbot is anything else but accurate, I hope at least it is private. Though it's definitely not a practical way of searching YT videos given it cannot find such primitive things and it does such nonsensical errors.
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Sorry everybody for offtop, 'cause it doesn't directly related to the thread. So UBlock still the only actual way of blocking ads in Vivaldi? Thru which script manager we can install Ublock in Vivaldi? As I see Chromish way of installation will soon be ceased to be supported as one can see on this warning
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You can also use Adblocker to block ads on hulu & disney plus. Idt the vivaldi one does though.
