Brave browser no longer can block YouTube ads by default
This is a major bummer. Any idea?
Brave Browser No Longer Can Block YouTube Ads by Default
welcomeUniverseWorld on 06/08/2025 - 20:36
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i think OP is asking on pc/laptop browser not mobile phone
revanced replaces YouTube ads with it's own, kind of useless
if your revanced is showing ads you should sign out, uninstall and change your passwords immediately.
Then go back and try again with the official revanced site.
add uBlock Origin
Youtube has pretty much become the videopoly of the internet. As they planned.
Google, and yes
All the AI's say when asked, "We'll see about that."
Market-share domination, yeah
Soon they will have your facial recognition as well
That won't help, even I can't recognise myself.
To be fair it ran at a massive loss for years… I think it only started making a profit very recently.
The costs to run a service that gets over 360hrs of video uploaded to it every minute would be huge.
I wonder if they would go back into the negative once asking people to provide facial/digital ID or upload drivers license.
They will. I think it will motivate people to create competing platforms that don't care about the laws. I won't use it if they ask for id or facial scans.
Why?
No, you don't. Because all this 'banning' is actually doing is linking every adult to all their social media accounts, which then makes them easy to silence and control when they start saying or thinking the wrong things. It has nothing at all to do with 'saving the children'. That's their parents' job.
Time to create 50x accounts - we can sell them on the black market in a few years after CCP Albo and Jim can track and trace everyone.
you do know the Australian government obliges service providers to capture and retain all internet data for two and up to ten years. Everything is recorded and our data are collected, sold manipulated and taken advantage of by US capitalists. now what was that about ccp?
you do know the Australian government obliges service providers to capture and retain all internet data for two and up to ten years.
well, I bloody hope they do as I lost my favourites bookmarks.
@subwoofer: Internet data is different…
All they would be doing is have a record of:
Public IP addresses and the subscription account it’s related to (assuming you’re on a dynamic or static IP)
There “may” be Netflow data (held for up to 6 months for most ISPs and “may” be DNS data (under the assumption you use the ISP’s DNS service which you shouldn’t)
If you have an ABN tied to the NBN service that’s also not the case.
It's both sides pushing the envelope. Ping, pong. Ping, pong. Left, right. Left, right.
Chrome + uBlock Origin for an ad-free YouTube experience if you don't want to move to Firefox.
chrome://flags
Temporarily unexpire M137 flags. - Enabled (then relaunch)
Allow legacy extension manifest versions (then relaunch)
Extension Manifest V2 Deprecation Warning Stage - Disabled
Extension Manifest V2 Deprecation Disabled Stage - Disabled
Extension Manifest V2 Deprecation Unsupported Stage - Disabled
My biggest gripe with the manifest v3 rubbish is that there were a bunch of non-negotiable extensions that simply won't be updated and thus I've had to ditch chrome for that reason alone.
Ad blocking is a widely needed function so someone will always make a solution for it, some niche extensions that are effectively abandonware not so much.
I don't suppose anyone knows a place where I can get extensions programmed without having to pay an arm or leg? Performing minor modifications to extension code is about the limit of my skills. I had to do that when google happily disabled my extensions and that prevented essential data export from one of them. Waking up to debugging someone else's code in a language you don't program in for an ecosystem you've never developed for is not an experience I want to repeat.
This is where AI can come into play. The more advanced models like GPT 4.5 or what Perplexity offer.
Except you can't trust the results, and the scraping traffic hurts smaller websites (heaps of requests without actual human clickthrough, hikes up cloud bills without compensation).
Perplexity especially has been effectively DDoSing sites with its crawlers. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/ai-si…
@Rysta: If you're not double checking what AI spits out you're an idiot basically. That doesn't mean you shouldn't use it altogether. When programming it's great for clarifying how certain functions work and why code won't work or compile.
Mullvad Browser ;)
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It's slow
I tried that but someone glanced in my direction from the other side of the street so I came back in and now I'm scared to go back outside.
That's a great idea when it's dark and freezing cold. We've got an Einstein here.
Link? proof? Or are you just assuming that a problem you are having must apply to everyone?
Brave working ad-less with YT no problem with me.Yep, no ads here
He no lying…
I wish someone would tell my Brave browser… I am literally just getting off the computer where I have been watching ad-less YouTube for the last hour or so.
Sounds like a you problem. No ads for me this evening.
Same here. What happen to my ads? Hidden by Brave.
Yeah, GrayJay is a great app.
Google suppresses it in search results, but it rocks.
It's the top result when you search Greyjay on Google lol
Thanks for that, hadn't heard of it before.
Thanks trying now. So basically no adds for all the plugin providers, right?
Thanks! I just installed it. Looks really good.
Any recommendations that works with WebOS? I can't cast to my LG TV with GrayJay
Sideload smarttube to a fire stick or Google TV stick for ad free YT on TV. Casting is so 2023.
I can't "sideload" onto the LG TV directly can I?
There is no desktop version yet.
Yes, there is. I just installed it.
🎶 This is how procrastination turned into a super adictive ad blocking obsession 🎶
Or is it just me that gets those weird ads?
I'm using brave browser and not getting any ads on youtube either.
I’ve fully given up on chromium based browsers. The bloat is real. FF and Safari are pretty good these days.
Anything in particular that is too bloated?
safari Adblocker?
I've had this problem for a while. There's a load of different troubleshooting methods online. Lots of other people experiencing it. I started going through the steps but been too busy to go back to it.
I used ChatGPT deep research to summarise various steps you can try scraped from diff forums if it's helpful:
https://chatgpt.com/share/6893db78-f920-800b-b1f6-c4b5e7fc42…Lmk if anything works
Its a cat and mouse game. YT changes things and Brave responds.
This^
This. They push out updates quickly whenever YT or something else updates to stop ad blocking.
Yeah, just keep up to date, lol. Some people keep browsers running for weeks without restarting.
To be honest Brave for me has never blocked ads. I've simply resorted to casting from my adless Yotube app from my phone.
Best app is Smarttube, its an amazing app but mainly works on android TVs. It blocks ads and things like self promotion and ads by the actual channel, like when they start talking about a vpn or something it skips.
Still works fine for me.
wait, what? … youtube has ads?
Inner tubes
Brave + ublock works for me. On my phone I just use Firefox + ublock since brave on Android doesn't allow extensions
Use kiwi
Kiwi has been abandoned, no more development.
Still works
Brave works ad free for me on PC, only issue is lately it hangs before playing each video, 5 or so second delay, very frustrating.
Brave has never shown me ads since I started using it as my primary browser on all my devices over 5 years ago.
I regularly use it on two computers, a phone, and a tablet. Not sure how I’ve managed to stay lucky all this time, but I’ve been using Gmail for almost 20 years, had Nexus and Pixel phones for over 10 years, and had a Google One standard subscription for about 5 years. Perhaps Google thinks I pay them enough to not annoy me??I use Brave and I got no ads on YouTube watching
With adblocking, the ads can sometimes come back with certain glitches, or the blocking part may not have updated. Youtube change their systems regularly so thats why beta software for this kind of thing is good.
No ads for me with Brave on my PC and with Brave browser on my iphone.. however I miss having the youtube app on my phone as it sucks on the mobile browser for example no notification button. Is there any trick to having an add free experience on my iphone with the actual app?
librefox and ublock origin.
Safari + Wipr :)
Firefox and uBlock Origin.