Why can't Youtube ads be blocked?
Some services like Youtube are using techniques to prevent ad-blockers from blocking their ads. It is unfortunately impossible to block them using DNS ad blocking at this time.
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Does Messenger ads work like Youtube?! It's frustrating to always ignore in-app advertising
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Jose Santos Christian
You can use Adguard, they now have feature to share youtube video on adguard app and play ad free directlt from adguard but each time you need to share video in adguard app to play ad free
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Use YouTube Venced app but I recommend not to use your Google gmail to signin because YouTube is against Venced app.
I hope you found this helpful.
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If you are on Android use the New Pipe app. No ads.
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I recommend you use a yt downloader its hard to find one without the ads being broken on next dns so here u go : https://youtube-video.download/en1/
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is there a way to disable ads in streaming services like tubi.tv or plex on android streaming boxes?
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I want to add to what Mohit said (share video to AdGuard and YouTube Vanced).
If you use webpage in good browsers instead of useless apps you not only can block ads but you also do something for your privacy. Some services like Twitter and Instagram and even this website (help.nextdns.io not my.nextdns.io) have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application PWA . You will have icon and it will look like an app but is running inside the browser. Not all websites have this, last time I used, Facebook, for example, did not have it. But it was OK in mobile web browser. You can even use messenger if you change the mobile browser to desktop.
As for streaming without ads, the best thing I know is https://wwww.webvideocaster.com Web Video Caster. Once you get to know how to use it's amazing. I can cast YouTube for example on my TV without ads.
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If your on a desktop computer, then just install unlock origin to block YouTube ads.
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caleb
remember that browser extension decreases your security and privacy. You're also easier trackable.
Read Browser Tracking | Madaidan's Insecurities (madaidans-insecurities.github.io)
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DynamicNotSlow except adguard
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viewpure.com is a site where you can watch youtube videos with no annoying youtube adverts.
If they can do it, why can't nextdns.io do it? If nextdns.io could do it, I might even consider paying for it. That is how annoying youtube adverts have become.
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T. Matthews you can’t compare a site which handle stuff completely differently with how DNS works
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DynamicNotSlow Yes I can and I just did.
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T. Matthews Have you seen all the trackers pureview.com uses? Scary to recommend something like that.
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Christian I don't use that anymore, I use 'adblock for youtube'. It works very well.
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In addition to NextDNS, I use AdGuard (Safari version, not Home) and never see any ads on YouTube.
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Yes, any suggestion on iOS. I'm using nextDNS I'm on ios 15.4.1. But still can't find any reliable way to block YouTube ads on the app version. overall it blocks ads which is really good. no complaints. If anyone has found a way please let me know the same.
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Ashutosh Soni https://adguard.com/en/blog/how-to-add-a-shortcut-to-block-youtube-ads.html works
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DynamicNotSlow but in the youtube app it doesn't show how.
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Ashutosh Soni you doesn’t need the app anyway
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Pure Tuber >App
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YouTube does not implement it's ads via separate domains, it serves them on the primary domains, so blocking said domains would be blocking the service itself.
Computer:
1) Use FreeTube (Recommended to use with Invidious API, proxying through Invidious instance is optional but reduces chance of blocking, although the cost is slower or poor video loading depending on your location)
2) In browser: Use YouTube with uBlock Origin in any of the supported browsers. (aka any browser that allows the uBlock Origin extension to be installed)
3) In browser: Use Enhancer for YouTube in any of the supported browsers (Recommended to use with uBlock Origin at the same time, Enhancer has alot of customizations that users may like, uBlock would handle the adblocking part, although Enhancer can do it as well, your choice)
4) In browser: Use Piped or Invidious (inconvenient and sometimes buggy)
Android:
1) Use NewPipe, NewPipe x SponsorBlock, LibreTube or SkyTube (These apps are known to be quite buggy however)
2) Use YouTube Vanced for as long it's still supported (You'll need to use web.archive.org in order to get the download link for Vanced Manager as the official website removed it late March due to the takedown pressure by Google)
3) In browser: Use YouTube in a Firefox based browser with uBlock Origin (Firefox for Android, Fennec F-Droid, Iceraven or Mull; inconvenient and sometimes buggy)
4) In browser: Use Piped or Invidious (inconvenient and sometimes buggy)
iOS:
1) There are no app-based methods other than purchasing YouTube Premium, there is also no uBlock Origin in iOS.
2) Use AdGuard for iOS/AdGuard Pro coupled with YouTube inside Safari (restricts you to only Safari and requires you to take manual steps everytime you load/reload the website, deemed a very annoying method that forces you to use a browser people dislike, but a method nontheless)
2) In browser: Use Piped or Invidious (inconvenient and sometimes buggy)
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You got the browser part wrong. Normal ublock/adblock or the such will not block very annoying youtube ads. Rather, you need the special ublock for youtube to do that job.
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T. Matthews That is actually uBlock Origin, although one could note that most use Origin already anyways, I've never been able to find the former uBlock anyways so kek.
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It's called 'Adblocker for Youtube' and it does remove very annoying youtube ads. Neither uBlock Origin nor NextDNS nor Pihole remove Youtube ads like this addon does.
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T. Matthews Well I can't say much on that, since I never experienced uBlock Origin fail, but I do not use YouTube directly nowadays so it doesn't really matter to me, sad that it doesn't work for you, atleast you got a replacement addon for it.
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What is the best setup for Ad-Blocking ??
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After a short research this is what I found so far:
Best DNS level Adblocking: NextDNS / Adguard DNS 2.0
Best system-wide endpoint level Adblocking: AdGuard / Blokada / StopAd
Best browser Adblocking: Brave Browser / uBlock Origin
Best self-hosted Adblocking: Pi-Hole / AdGuard Home
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Are there any other recommendations worth checking out?
What do you think is the best combination for blocking advertisements on all levels and devices, including various end devices such as smart TVs and so on.
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YouTube AD blocklist
https://github.com/ewpratten/youtube_ad_blocklist/raw/master/blocklist.txt
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Marcos Paglione Unfortunately that wouldn't work at least properly as even if you block the domains and manage to not block the same domain as the videos YouTube app stops playing videos until ads are accessed again.
So, I'd say that only real option would be to get YouTube Premium, or third party methods.
I'm saying this as I've gone through the painful process of manually blocking/allowing domains and it would either have both the video and the ad served from the same domain where the videos wouldn't play or after a few videos the app wouldn't allow you to play any more content without another ad.
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