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still not able to block youtube ads, thanks, but no thanks. I´ll stick with adblock edge.



I have never seen a single YouTube ad with uBlock and Chrome.


IME, youtube ads seem to come on dynamically, with dynamic amount of "forcible viewing" time, eg 5sec, 30sec, 60sec, etc. It does a pretty damn good job of showing me the most ad without my walking away in disgust. For example, I was on a binge of science videos and the ads went from 0 sec, to 15, to 30, in lock-step with my curiosity.


for me i've noticed they only show up on embedded videos on 3rd party sites


>I´ll stick with adblock edge.

Well, you can use what you want. We have no vested interest.

>still not able to block youtube ads, thanks, but no thanks.

But you're wrong, of course. And you've not given enough information for people to accurately help you, if they wanted to do so despite your tone.

On both Chrome and on Opera, with uBlock I don't get YouTube adverts. (Albeit with some more filter tickboxes ticked, which may or may not make a difference.)

If you want to try and get uBlock blocking your YouTube adverts, I'm sure lots of us would be willing assist. More so if you weren't an ass about it.

Edit: I'm using HTML5 instead of Flash, that could be the key difference.


> I'm using HTML5 instead of Flash, that could be the key difference.

The ads with Flash is only a problem on Safari, due to API limitation on Safari (Chromium/Firefox can block ads with Flash).

As for the filter lists, I think only _EasyList_ is needed for Youtube ads.


I believe Safari/Youtube/Flash won't block ads. But Safari/Youtube/HTML5 does.

Reference: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/706#issuecomment-73...


You must be missing some of the block lists (or just speculating). The amount of stuff that uBlock handles is the same as Adblock Edge.


youtube-dl fixes all ads on youtube. And gives you a backup to boot! win/win really.


Did you enable the 3rd Party Filters?




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