YouTube Ad Blocker

lamrongol

@barbudo2005 Sorry but I've searched and checked app but can't find a way to use NewPipe as an extension.
At least, Vivaldi on Android doesn't have a function of extensions? https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/89551/extensions-on-android/4

Ayespy

@lamrongol said in YouTube Ad Blocker:

can't find a way to use NewPipe as an extension.

Because it's not an extension. It's an app.

And, no, Vivaldi Android cannot accept extensions.

uyx

@tonysea Unfortunately, Brave is the only browser ATM that blocks YouTube ads in the default configuration. However, I don't think one need to change the prefered browser of every living thing on the Solar System, that is, Vivaldi, for a crypto-based bussiness. Also, there's no too much to gain from seeing YouTube wihout ads but a sense of privacy based on an appareance of no-tracking by Google. Nevertheless, Google tracks every movement, with or without showing ads —even if you buy YouTube Premium.

Using default ad and tracker blocker in Vivaldi should be sufficient in most cases, because what is being used is DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar. However, the best part is that you don't need uBlock if you will not going for the details but want and easy and efficient set up, by just going to Settings > Privacy > Tracker and Ad Blocking > Manage Sources. There you can add some Sources, like AdGuard, that sometimes can block more.
Installing an extension increases your attack surface, be it AdGuard, uBlock, or whatever.

The best you can do is installing FreeTube (app) or using a public instance on Invidious (web) or Piped (web). You can then sync suscriptions of Piped (web) in LibreTube (app) in Android devices, and I think that you can install the website as a PWA on iOS devices (though I am not sure). However, you can use too Newpipe (app) on Android (though it is going in a recreation and for this reason isnt receiving important updates in the meanwhile) and Yattee (app) on Apple devices (including TV, macOS, and iOS). All of this options allow you to watch YouTube without ads while gaining some level of real privacy and not just a false sense of not being tracked. In my case, all of this apps are a lot faster than YouTube, and I enjoy more using those apps that using YouTube or, for example, AdGuard (in Android and iOS you must sharr the video with AdGuard, and the last time I checked some years ago, you can't view any subtitles at all).

Brave isn't needed to watch just YouTube: you gain near to nothing with this. Better to use Vivaldi and pinning to the panel one —or all— of the above mentioned sites.

Catweazle

@uyx, as said above, I don't see ads in YT, activated the Vivaldi Tracker blocker + Violentmonkey with these scripts, which YT obviously don¡t see.

YouTubeVideo&music&kidsAdBlocking

Ultimate YouTube Ad Remover and Detection Bypasser

Without ads and nags since more than half a year.

I use also FreeTube + SMplayer as extern player, because some videos , like also in Invidios are blocked by YT and SMplayer is capable to ignore it.
Other Front-ends which still work well are
PokeTube
LightTube
ViewTube

Alternative to YT, I use also Odysee (OpenSource, hosted by LBRY). There you can even sync your YT channels. It's like YT, but without Google.

lamrongol

I started to use AdGuard on Android and it works for Vivaldi correctly at least this time.

stardepp

New: Youtube again tightens the blocking of adblockers:

https://9to5google.com/2024/05/27/youtube-skipping-to-end-adblockers/

DoctorG

Youtube adds ads to video stream in server itself, can not be blocked anymore. Videos have no timestamps to detect start and end of ads. Will be the end of working adblocker for YT videos.

And a YT paid premium account is not guaranteed to be free from ads now and in future.

Pesala

@DoctorG uBlock Origin is still working for me, but some videos start in the middle or near the end, so I need to press the Home key. Not unusable yet for me.

Catweazle

@DoctorG, the script blocks also in-video ads and all other, I had never seen an ad or any other crap since almost half a year with it, only not posible to skip, when the author himself promote some products in the video in his discourse, that's naturally not detectable.

DoctorG

@Catweazle said in YouTube Ad Blocker:

the script blocks also in-video ads

How? When they send the ad in video stream in the video you can not filter.
I guess YT does this internally on same server domain
Concact [AD video] [video] with no space between them and stream.
As pay TV does it snice years.

barbudo2005

@Catweazle

Said:

I had never seen an ad or any other crap since almost half a year with it…

Each country is different, it is not possible to generalize.

I have not seen ads during the last 6 months only with uBO in Vivaldi and neither in Chrome only with ABP.

Just last week an ad-blocker warning appeared in Chrome.

It would be convenient to indicate the link of the video to really test.

luetage

@barbudo2005 You can use the uBlock list in Vivaldi to block Youtube ads too, add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/master/filters/quick-fixes.txt to the internal adblocker.

Catweazle

@DoctorG, it is identifiable by the adblocker, although it is hosted in YT, they are independent of the video. You can easily check it in a video with ads, simply by changing the URL to embedded or putting the video in an iFrame, the corresponding scripts that I used previously and that also worked very well, cutting off all ads in the video, but with the disadvantage of not allowing the playback of some videos, which had been disabled the permission to see them outside of YT, that's why I changed to this adblock script, which also cuts all the ads on YT, not just the ones in the video.

barbudo2005

@Catweazle

It would be interesting if you give the link to test it with or without the script.

7twenty

@barbudo2005 said in YouTube Ad Blocker:

It would be convenient to indicate the link of the video to really test.

I don't think it would prove much. They'd be implementing this by user/user type/country or something like that. Highly unlikely it's being added to particular videos.

As of yesterday uBO isn't working for me. Of the 50-odd videos i've watched since then, every single one of them has shown ads, of which prior to now i hadn't seen for ages with uBO.

But here's two to see what the verdict is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGIpdiQrFDU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yofjGi6LOVc

Catweazle

@7twenty, I don't see any ads in this videos with the adblocker script. If you see ads there, you also can test in editing the URLs to embedded, that mean

Using

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xxxxxxxx

intead of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxx

This way you also won't see ads, watching the Video maximized in a new tab, without the rest of the YT page.

7twenty

@Catweazle said in YouTube Ad Blocker:

with the adblocker script

which script? I couldn't find anything in this thread. I find it odd that this script will work but uBO doesn't. SAys to me it's different ad types being delivered/blocked.

@Catweazle said in YouTube Ad Blocker:

you also can test in editing the URLs to embedded

This works.

barbudo2005

@7twenty

Said:

which script?

This link:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/480192-youtube视频-音乐-儿童-短视频广告拦截

Catweazle

Anyway, with the new move of YT, if they implement it, there are needed another measures. In any case it will kill all front-ends and desktop-clients of YT

DoctorG

@DoctorG said in YouTube Ad Blocker:

And a YT paid premium account is not guaranteed to be free from ads now and in future.

Yes, as i said here that Premium does not protect agains ads, and now ads "sponsored" whatever-else pollutes YT Premium users more and more: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1g8kv31/am_i_seeing_ads_even_with_premium_now/

Premium subscription means really: You get our premium content, not a premium filter! We can do this.

Oh yes, i guess Google says: Sorry, was not intended. Only a experiment by our volunteer.

I say: Youtube. Use them or sue them!

SCNR.