Exactly what it says in the title.
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Long version: I switched to wBlock when Adguard for Safari became AdGuard Mini and didn't seem to include the same options as before (unless I missed something when reading the changes?) without subscribing. I'd also had issues with it being detected as enabled when temporarily disabled for checking whether it was causing a problem with a page loading not loading properly.
wBlock works fine for the most part. The only major issue I've found so far is that I have 'Never Autoplay' enabled for all sites, but that setting isn't respected/being ignored. I've not tested for other sites yet, but Youtube is definitely an issue as the videos immediately play upon switching to that tab and keeps blasting me in the face with audio if I forget to turn the volume down.
Things I've tried:
- I temporarily unticked each of the filters in turn and updated the settings in the app, and that didn't seem to help.
- In Safari, I unticked wBlock 1 in Extensions, and that immediately solved the problem. However, now I want to figure out exactly what filter or setting within that is causing the problem and adjust/disable it somehow so the rest of the settings can remain working.
(It also might be causing an issue with Youtube where if a Short is clicked on without specifying that it should be opened in a new tab, it scrolls immediately down to the next one it has lined up, and won't scroll back. But that I'll deal with another day. The main issue right now is the Autoplay setting not being respected. I'm guessing it has more to do with Youtube being a dumpster fire of ads and reacting with any kind of content blockers, etc.)
I'm at my wits end right now. Can anyone tell me if I'm missing a setting somewhere, or whether there's a workaround? I'd prefer to not disable content blockers for Youtube altogether because of the things other than ads (eg. trackers) that are being blocked.
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