Youtube | Block Ads with Native Ad Blocker

[TravellinBob]

Hi. Thanks for your response. It's not that I have any violent objection to the Play store at all - I've installed from it in the past, both on laptop and my mobile, and never had any issues. Nor am I virulently anti-Google (difficult to be that as one of my kids holds a senior position in the company!), their products are generally very good, easy to maintain and do what they are supposed to do well. Sure, their data collection and on-sale practices are questionable, but no more than those of any other Big Tech companies - I'm talking about you, Microsoft and Meta!

I'm simply not keen on Extensions, and rarely use them. I've blogged on this platform before, and in this Forum, about my belief that any browser set-up should be done using KISS to get optimum results, at least for my simple requirements as detailed in the posts, so if I need an extension to do something than I probably will live without that particular functionality if I can rather than clutter the system up with an Extension that, IMO, leads to a reduced performance. Back in the Firefox days, I used a lot of Extensions - had to, to make the thing work how I wanted it even in my simple needs - and the more I added the slower and more erratic it got. So I went back to Chrome, then Edge and ultimately here.

So for this issue of You Tube ads, irritating though they can be, I'll put up with it.

[Pesala]

@Pesala I got the ad-blocker warning again a few days ago, so I had to enable ads. However, today Vivaldi’s ad-blocking is working fine again.

I tried UBlock Origin, but it did not help. I will stick to my tried and tested workaround (History Back, Delay 10, History Forward) when I have to enable ads, then turn ad-blocking back on after a day or two.

[Catweazle]

For me the Vivaldi trackerblocker and the Violentmonkey script still working flawles, no ads or nags in YT since last year until the present ️ solved

[wintercoast]

@TravellinBob said in Annoying ads on youtube are back:

I'm simply not keen on Extensions, and rarely use them. I've blogged on this platform before, and in this Forum, about my belief that any browser set-up should be done using KISS to get optimum results

Interesting you should say that. The rationale for extensions was to satisfy both users who want minimalism and no bloat, and those who want customisation (but we all want different things - hence a huge number of extensions).

Elsewhere, others condemn Vivaldi for having too much and being bloated! They say "but I can get feature X, Y, Z via extensions...

It's impossible to satisfy everyone!

[Pesala]

Over the weekend, YouTube started nagging me to allow ads again.

I cleared my YouTube cookies, logged out of YouTube, and restarted Vivaldi, but it made no difference.

Today, I can again use YouTube without ads, and with the default ad-blocking enabled, without any scripts or extensions. It seems to work for a week or two until the warning appear again.

[Catweazle]

@Pesala, still no issues with the script I use

[carlinhosnewstyle]

Last weekend, YouTube ads were back again.
Because using third-party extensions we don't have ads, now when using the Vivaldi standard, YouTube always manages to win with ads?
Vivaldi's ad blocker is broken, it works for a week and then YouTube does something and manages to win. Vivaldi, why is that?

[Catweazle]

@carlinhosnewstyle, the same thing happens to those who use uBO, YT is a continuous battle with adblockers and gorhill working overtime to cancel them. This is why I prefer to use methods that YT, at least until now, has not discovered, like this script that I use with Violentmonkey, which has been working for me for half a year without problems, I have not seen ads since then.

[iAN CooG]

@TravellinBob said in Annoying ads on youtube are back:

I've seen uBlockOrigins in tandem with the Vivaldi ad-blocker mentioned as a solution

It can't be stressed enough but let's repeat: DON'T use uBO and another blocker at the same time. They can interfere when you need to block ads on YT. Enable only uBO.

[Pesala]

The issue reported in Ad-blocker not Blocking YouTube Ads is a new issue.

YouTube have obviously refined their code to play ads regardless, instead of just showing a screen about violation of the Terms of Service.

I have Ad-blocking enabled, and can now watch videos with it enabled, but ads still show up. My workaround is to use a Command Chain for: History Back, Delay 100, History Forward. That only bypasses the initial ads.

[Catweazle]

@Pesala, yes, the adblock scripts also don't work anymore since today, but I still watch YT ids without ads redirecting these in embedded form in a new tab in full page
https://openuserjs.org/scripts/Kraust/Youtube_Embed_Redirect/source (very small script of 4 lines).

Anyway the ad skipper also still works, because instead blocking it skips them
https://greasyfork.org/es/scripts/477383-working-youtube-ad-skipper.

Scripts I currently use

[swthai]

Finally happened to me today.

[Ryszard]

Me too

[CStallone]

Okay so let me understand this, is Ublock still useful vs. youtube? And what about Privacy Badger?

I've checked around the forum, and those seem to be the most highly recommended solutions, though the recommendations all seem to be 2+ months old. Now re UBlock, I see where someone on Reddit said that youtube was sniffing it out, but then someone else said they're playing wack a mole, so it'll work and then it won't. And I've heard less about Privacy Badger, so how useful is it (still)?

[Zalex108]

@CStallone said in Youtube | Block Ads with Native Ad Blocker:

Ublock

Just made a Test.
I don't see Youtube Ads with uBlock

Exported the uBlock List
Imported to a Testing Profile
Showed up PreVideo Ads
Cleaned the Youtube cookies
Refreshed

0 PreVideo Ads
0 InVideo Ads

So,
Clean the Cookies seems necessary as well as take care of the Lists.

[CStallone]

@Zalex108 :

Thank you, and yeah, even if Ublock only ever works part of the time, that's something.

[barbudo2005]

@CStallone

Read this link from uBO:

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1atwzem/youtube_detection_ads_breakages_2024_02_18_ubo/

[Ryszard]

@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/ I don't see.

[Zalex108]

@Ryszard

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.

[CStallone]

@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.