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Comment by mcdeltat

15 hours ago

Conveniently, if you're watching a youtube video with an ad, switch apps and youtube reloads, you have to watch the ad again

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ssl-3  15 hours ago

You guys have ads on youtube?

  • alpaca128  14 hours ago

    Ad blockers don't work anymore, at least not with the version YT serves me. If it thinks that I have an ad blocker active (false positives happen too), it will only show a black rectangle and not even load the comments.

    • ssl-3  2 hours ago

      Strange.

      On PC, I use Firefox with the uBlock Origin extension and I see no ads on Youtube.

      Same with my pocket supercomputer: Firefox works great on Android, including for Youtube. And it uses extensions like the PC version does. No ads there, either.

      On the BFT in the living room, I have a Google-manufactuered Google TV device. It runs SmartTube, and displays no ads on Youtube.

      I even have an iPad that I use primarily for watching Youtube videos. For that, I stay completely within the confines of the walled garden and use Safari with the AdBlock add-on. And: If you're guessing that I'm about to write that have no ads on Youtube there either, then you're right. There's no ads on Youtube with that device, either.

      Am I doing this wrong?

      Maybe my perspective differs from that of some others, but it seems to all work very well for me here in 2026. (There's been some ups and downs with this over the years, but it all finds its way back to exactly what I wrote above, anyway.)

    • user205738  6 hours ago

      Also, if none of the methods helps: Google has completely remove advertising in YouTube videos in Russia.

      So you don't even need an ad blocker, just a sponsor block.

      By the way, this (Not an extension, but a login from a Ru ip's) removes ads from all other Google services.

    • user205738  7 hours ago

      try firefox, librewolf, waterfox, chromium. In these browsers I had ublock origin (lite for chromium), adguard and NoScript (And/Or Privacy Badger) on my phone and PC, I didn't see any ads at all. I use the unhook and enhancer extensions with them)