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I tried using many content blockers (free ones) but not even a single one of them was able to prevent YouTube ads from playing. Have you any suggestions here?

dawnerd 7y ago
None of them are going to stop YouTube ads, that’s just not how the built in content blocker works. You might be able to with pinhole but setting that up on mobile is a world of fun...
- godelmachine 7y ago
  May I ask whats meant by "pinhole" here? Thanks
  - jamesponddotco 7y ago
    I am guessing he meant Pi-hole [1], a DNS blackhole for advertisement. You use it as your DNS server on iOS and it will block ads on any application. There are also people running public instances around the web, like me [2], so you don’t have to install and manage your own. You could also go with AdGuard DNS [3] or nextdns [4]. [1] https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/ [2] E-mail me at root@jamespond.co for beta access [3] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html [4] https://nextdns.io/ https://nextdns.io/
frio 7y ago
1Blocker X is brilliant. Use the YouTube website, not the app; content blocking only works inside Safari afaict (for instance, Firefox on iOS doesn't seem to benefit from the content blocker).
- godelmachine 7y ago
  Thanks for this suggestion but I am looking for a free one :)
  - frio 7y ago
    So was I; in the end I had to cave as nothing was particularly good, sadly.
SHAKEDECADE 7y ago
Use Adblock from futuremind. It cost less than a beer. It set’s up a local dns vpn so you can still use a VPN like nordvpn. You can then block any type IP or set up complex rules. I’ve been able to block youtube ads and all the other stuff on their page. I only see the video I go to. The only limiting thing is a 5000 url/ip limit and that I have to open up and restart the App once a day usually. Also under experimental settings for safari, only enable disable web SQL block top level redirects from third party sites and swap processes on cross site navigation
- godelmachine 7y ago
  Thanks for sharing all the details. Its quite cheap as compared to others, agreed, but I would like to still see if there are good free Adblockers.

dawnerd 7y ago

None of them are going to stop YouTube ads, that’s just not how the built in content blocker works. You might be able to with pinhole but setting that up on mobile is a world of fun...

godelmachine 7y ago
May I ask whats meant by "pinhole" here? Thanks
- jamesponddotco 7y ago
  I am guessing he meant Pi-hole [1], a DNS blackhole for advertisement. You use it as your DNS server on iOS and it will block ads on any application. There are also people running public instances around the web, like me [2], so you don’t have to install and manage your own. You could also go with AdGuard DNS [3] or nextdns [4]. [1] https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/ [2] E-mail me at root@jamespond.co for beta access [3] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html [4] https://nextdns.io/ https://nextdns.io/

frio 7y ago

1Blocker X is brilliant. Use the YouTube website, not the app; content blocking only works inside Safari afaict (for instance, Firefox on iOS doesn't seem to benefit from the content blocker).

godelmachine 7y ago
Thanks for this suggestion but I am looking for a free one :)
- frio 7y ago
  So was I; in the end I had to cave as nothing was particularly good, sadly.

SHAKEDECADE 7y ago

Use Adblock from futuremind. It cost less than a beer. It set’s up a local dns vpn so you can still use a VPN like nordvpn. You can then block any type IP or set up complex rules. I’ve been able to block youtube ads and all the other stuff on their page. I only see the video I go to. The only limiting thing is a 5000 url/ip limit and that I have to open up and restart the App once a day usually. Also under experimental settings for safari, only enable disable web SQL block top level redirects from third party sites and swap processes on cross site navigation

godelmachine 7y ago
Thanks for sharing all the details. Its quite cheap as compared to others, agreed, but I would like to still see if there are good free Adblockers.