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DianaofThemiscyra said:
Some mentioned before me to be using wipr + vinegar. I didn't know vinegar till I read that comment. I decided to give vinegar a try and thanks to this person I now watch Youtube without ads. So now I'm currently using wipr + vinegar. Give vinegar a try. I'm not able to say if it's compatible with your adblocker, but I don't see a reason why it wouldn't. You can search more info about vinegar and its compatibilities and incompatibilities on the Internet if you need. BTW Vinegar is available for download in Apple Store.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I had a quick look at the app, and liked the fact the developer seems to be regularly updating and improving the app. It is perfect on iOS, but on my Mac it is not quite so good. I liked the Mac YouTube feature that allowed you to look ahead at what is contained in a video, when you run the cursor along the timeline. Even scrubbing on the timeline doesn't work well on Mac, but perfectly on iPhone. Worth the £1.79 for iPhone use alone. I think it's irrelevant if you're running an ad-blocker or not if you use Vinegar, as it blocks the in-video ads on its own.
 
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ric22 said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I had a quick look at the app, and liked the fact the developer seems to be regularly updating and improving the app. It is perfect on iOS, but on my Mac it is not quite so good. I liked the Mac YouTube feature that allowed you to look ahead at what is contained in a video, when you run the cursor along the timeline. Even scrubbing on the timeline doesn't work well on Mac, but perfectly on iPhone. Worth the £1.79 for iPhone use alone. I think it's irrelevant if you're running an ad-blocker or not if you use Vinegar, as it blocks the in-video ads on its own.
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I'm the same as you. I like Vinegar on iPhone/iPad Safari but not on Mac. On Mac, Wipr with Wipr Extra enabled will block ads on YT and you still get all the YT features.
 
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TinyMito said:
1Blocker base in Russia Fed. Server as well 1blocker.com - nothing loads for me since my network block everything from Russia.

Also a Russian developer ( S a l a v a t K h a n o v ) for 1Blocker.

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Thank you for sharing this. I think I might have know, but I'm really concerned about allowing any Russian software on my devices at this time. I'm going to remove it tonight and try either Adguard or Wipr. Geez, the things we have to worry about in the current world. Again, showing this is a service to us.
 
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What's the deal with Mac scrubbing being so much worse than iOS scrubbing, by the way? It's got a serious 2002 Quicktime vibe.
 
gwang73 said:
I'm the same as you. I like Vinegar on iPhone/iPad Safari but not on Mac. On Mac, Wipr with Wipr Extra enabled will block ads on YT and you still get all the YT features.
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That's interesting. Forums 6 months ago said that Wipr Extra stopped defeating the YouTube ads.

Edit: It was only £1.79 so I bought that too. Works perfectly so far, thanks! It's moments like this I really value this forum. :cool: I like fairly priced Ad-blockers as opposed to £3 a month subscription guff, when they're well supported by their developers, so I was happy to give this one a shot.
 
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Adguard + Vinegar. I've been testing several different (free) ones lately. And this is the only one that works consistently, without blocking "real" content like DirecTV Stream, etc.
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‎AdGuard for Safari

‎More than 35,000,000 AdGuard users enjoy the better, faster, and safer Internet. The ad blocker extension clears all ads in Safari and fights data tracking to protect privacy. Unlike other major ad blockers, AdGuard provides some extra features you are used to having with the traditional (now...
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ric22 said:
That's interesting. Forums 6 months ago said that Wipr Extra stopped defeating the YouTube ads.

Edit: It was only £1.79 so I bought that too. Works perfectly so far, thanks! It's moments like this I really value this forum. :cool: I like fairly priced Ad-blockers as opposed to £3 a month subscription guff, when they're well supported by their developers, so I was happy to give this one a shot.
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It could be because people didn't know they had to turn on Wipr Extra separately in Safari Extensions. I've never seen an ad in YT since Wipr Extra was released.

For $1.99, I think it's excellent value for what it does and the dev responds to all reports of broken sites, which I rarely experience.
 
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gwang73 said:
I'm the same as you. I like Vinegar on iPhone/iPad Safari but not on Mac. On Mac, Wipr with Wipr Extra enabled will block ads on YT and you still get all the YT features.
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I didn't know I could block YT ads with wipr extra. I might try using Wipr + Wipr extra on my Macbook and Vinegar on iPhone / iPad. Thank you!
 
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Adguard for Safari is open source and works really well for years. Same on iOS and PC.

Adguard Home is another open source like Pi-Hole for hardware base DNS filtering.
 
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TinyMito said:
Adguard for Safari is open source and works really well for years. Same on iOS and PC.

Adguard Home is another open source like Pi-Hole for hardware base DNS filtering.
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I just can't believe they value it at £72 for 3 devices! That's $94 USD equivalent.
 
I did a test a few weeks ago on lots of adblockers and across all Apple devices AdGuard is consistently the best and available for desktop and mobile devices.

However, Adguard via the app store for MacOS while watching YouTube is weird when you first load a video that has ads but it’s good after. Now if you’re using a Chromium based browser then AdGuard or uBlock Origin is the answer.
 
ric22 said:
I just can't believe they value it at £72 for 3 devices! That's $94 USD equivalent.
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Aguard for Safari and Adguard Home is free. I think what you are looking at is the standalone app which is not open source.
 
ric22 said:
I just can't believe they value it at £72 for 3 devices! That's $94 USD equivalent.
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AdGuard for Safari (browser extension) and AdGuard Home (DNS) are free. AdGuard for Mac is a paid product.

$80+tax is the lifetime licence for Adguard for 3 devices. Yearly is about $30 for 3 devices. I feel it is well worth it.
 
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ric22 said:
An apparent partner of Adguard offer the lifetime subscription at a much lower cost- $20 for life
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It is probably ok. Worth the risk I would say. My memory is that I paid around $30 for AdGuard (lifetime 3 devices) directly from AdGuard - just kept my eyes open for it being on special.
 
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ric22 said:
Hi guys, I thought I'd try posting here rather than starting a new thread straight away.

1Blocker isn't blocking YouTube adverts successfully any more on an M1 Mac- which adblockers (if any) are able to block YouTube ads still?
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From what I understand, 1Blocker only blocks YouTube through a browser. Wish I would/could block through their app.
 
So I've been reading all this and so far AdBlock Pro works pretty well for me. Not quite sure how they make money though that's thing that irks me about it.
 
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