Was there any changes between YouTube and AdBlock?

1 or 2 years ago, maybe 3, I've switch off the ad blocker I've been using on YouTube because my user experience was somewhat awful. Now, within the last few months, YouTube just kept showing some stupid fake game ads or some gooner baits, despite saying countless times that these specific ads were uninteresting or bothering me. Nonetheless, the YouTube algorithm never seemed to learn and just kept repeating these ads.

I was okay with car ads, game ads or Unicef or other humanitarian topic related ads. Even when they were unskipable. The first were barely any bother, the second somewhat within my interest, while the latter are a pretty important messages to get through.

Anyway, I've reactivated my ad blocker, but YouTube isn't giving me a hard time for it anymore. Was there any changes?

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Is there any ad blocker that doesn't make the stream really blurry?

I use Adguard extra and everytime it blocks an ad it gets really blurry for a while, does anyone have one that doesn't do that? submitted by /u/GhostyEatsMcdonalds [link] [comments]

Can online ads be dangerous even if you don't click them?

I know a lot of people here probably haven't seen an online ad in years lol, but I thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss.

I always thought online ads were mostly just annoying, as long as you didn't click on anything suspicious.

But I recently read that some malicious ads can actually put you at risk without clicking anything, especially if your browser has security vulnerabilities.

Kind of scary when you think about it.

Now I'm wondering if using an ad blocker is more about security than convenience.

Do you guys use ad blockers mainly to get rid of ads, or for privacy and security reasons? Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

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Filter List to Stop Site from Redirecting Me

Certain sites will discover that I’m using an ad blocker and automatically redirects me to another site until I turn it off.

How do I stop this? I use Filter Lists in iCab Mobile

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How do you deal with the sponsor reads baked into YouTube videos?

Ad blockers usually handle the normal ad breaks, but the “this video is sponsored by...” part in the middle of the video is still there, since it’s part of the video itself.

Curious how people here handle it:

• Do you skip it manually, or just live with it?
• If you use something automatic, where does it fall short? (new videos, small channels, non-English videos, etc.)
• Is it a real annoyance for you, or just a “scrub forward 30 seconds” thing?

Not selling anything and nothing to link, I’m just trying to see how common this actually is.

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Neutering ads in Reddit.

I am on an iPhone (loaned so beggars don’t get to be choosers) using brave. I can’t use Firefox with Adblock as iPhones do not allow extensions natively.

How can I effectively prevent ads here? I prefer using a phone to browse over my laptop. I am just sick of seeing them and when I go to mute or report them I get warned I am at my limit and action may be taken **for not allowing them to inundate my feed with bullshit**.

Any help or tips is appreciated.

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Twitch ad injections above ad or side of stream

I've been using Pie for about a year since the ublock stuff happened. It didn't work on waterfox with teh full thing, didn't work on chrome with ubo. Friend steered me to Pie which has worked perfectly up until about a week ago where Twitch has been injecting video ads randomly at the top of the chat or at the right side of the stream. I can inspect element delete the ads to keep em off the screen, but they keep coming back. Pie hasn't done shit to fix the issue so here I am, askin for help

On chrome. have no intention of goin back to waterfox as Pie [last I checked at least] wasn't supported there and again, it actually works. This is the only issue I've ever had with it. Still perfectly fine everywhere else.

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