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Thursday, March 12, 2026

WIndows Adblockers all have a 10~30s perpetual load for Youtube (Chromium, Brave, Firefox)

So very very recently I've been getting an issue where if i click on a Youtube video of a monetized channel, No matter what Adblock extension I use, or even if I use Chromium Brave's built-in adblock, or a Firefox framework with adblock, It loads all the other elements of the Youtube page, except for the video and audio (even the captions load.) I can go forwards and backwards in the progress bar, but the video just doesn't play for 10~30 seconds, depending on the video, but standard for the same video. (My guesses are channel size = how many ads attempt to run, or channel type = the diversity of ads attempt to run)
And then 10~30 seconds later, the youtube video loads as usual.
This is just inconvenient by itself, but what's worrying is that it implies that Youtube has all the power over adblockers now. There is a possible, not-to-distant future where Youtube simply perma-rejects the adblocker and just never loads the video.
For people who experience the same problem as me, please ping my reddit when you find a updated adblock which fixes this. (No im not switching to Linux over this, not considering it at the moment)

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VPN servers for AppleTV

I wanna use a VPN on my apple tv. I only want to use a server in Albania do I don’t have to watch YouTube ads.

I literally don’t care about speed or any of that stuff. I just want a random free vpn that lets me connect to an albanian server.

The free ones that I downloaded had many countries but Albania requires an upgrade.

Does anyone know a free VPN that lets you use a server from Albania?

submitted by /u/Economy-Gear6507
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Adblock for iOS

I was wondering what the best adblocker for iOS was. I’ve been using AdGuard which was good for a while, but I still have some issues with ads sometimes. I recently found Luna Adblock, which works really well, but I don’t really need an adblocker for anything but safari, and I hear they sell a lot of your data. Are there any good alternatives, or do I just have to stick with one of these.

(I prefer to stick with free adblockers, but if there happens to be a really good one for cheap, I would consider that too)

Thanks!

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I keep having to adding adnauseum back to my broswer on system boot

Does anyone else have this issue? I added Adnauseum to ungoogled chromium and later to brave to confirm if this is a browser issue or something else but when I turn off my pc and come back to it later I see that I have to go back into my extensions manager again and do a "load unpacked" for Adnauseum to add it back as an extension again. Developer mode is still on so I don't know why it keeps getting removed when I shut down my pc. Can't be a browser specific issue either since it happened with both Brave and Ungoogled Chromium. Anyone else had this issue before?

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