youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

  • XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My buddy reported that he started getting blocked using uBlock starting today.

    I’ve never had any of the problems, but I have some caveats that may be helpful:

    1. I live in Korea
    2. I use brave browser with no uBlock as it’s unnecessary
    3. I also use NextDNS at the router level.

    #3 seems to be of no consequence as I tried using vanilla Chrome and ads played while randomly testing videos

    That leads me to believe #2 or #1 is preventing ads.

    I didn’t disable NextDNS since it failed at #3, and I haven’t tried VPNing into a U.S. endpoint out of laziness.

    Either #1, or #2 is preventing ads … I’m inclined to believe it is #2, Brave browser, that is successfully blocking ads; even without VPN, with NextDNS, I was still getting ads in vanilla Chrome.

    I think there is something in Brave browser that is currently overlooked.

    I hope it helps someone