Ads are showing once again on YouTube with Safari

[212rikanmofo]

I have been a long fan of Ublocks Origin but since that no longer works with the latest macOS big sur I have switched to Wipr. It was working for awhile, but recently, ads started playing on YouTube videos again. I have updated Wipr and installed the latest block lists and they still appear. Sucks that I paid for this app and it's no longer working. Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

 

[BeatCrazy]

No idea how to fix, but it got totally out of control about a week ago. I'm using Ghostery Lite, which previously did a great job.

I get it.. ads pay for content. But something is crazy whack. I'm often getting about 1 ad per minute.

 

[tranceking26]

This may not help too much, but in the past adblockers seem to stop working until updated, used to happen to me once every few months. Same for twitch. It's an ongoing battle!

 

[Apple_Robert]

No idea how to fix, but it got totally out of control about a week ago. I'm using Ghostery Lite, which previously did a great job.

I get it.. ads pay for content. But something is crazy whack. I'm often getting about 1 ad per minute.

A lot of the time, the content creators decide how many ads they want to put in their videos. Adguard Pro is still working for me.

 

[coffeeplease]

AdGuard for Safari is working for me, as long as you enable the "advanced blocking" extension.

 

[twdawson]

This is one of the reasons I have installed Brave Browser for watching YouTube videos.

 

[ice29]

This has started a few weeks ago, it seems that it is user-specific, that is why some still see ads and other don't... In my case, adblockers (any of them, on Mac or iPad, the same behavior) worked when I was signed-out of Youtube, but as soon as I signed in they became useless... And no, no history/website-data/cookies deletion did not work. Whereas with my partner's account on the same machine adblockers still worked... I guess the ad-blocking companies need some time to adapt. I personally gave up and bought Youtube premium for family and shared it with a few people... this way it costs less then one coffee per month.

 

[vetoes]

Yea, YT have changed something about how ads work again. AdGuard for Safari on both iOS and MacOS is only thing that I know it works now on YT.

Quick and simple workaround is to just add nsfw in front of YouTube in URL on video page. It will make you video embedded.

 

[ice29]

For those who still have problems also with Adguard, there is a blog-post from the company with a potential "fix"
link

 

[patearrings]

I just use brave, blocks the lot and is also more privacy and security conscious than safari.

 

[twdawson]

I just use brave, blocks the lot and is also more privacy and security conscious than safari.

That’s exactly what I do, its the best way.