youtube adv's in safari only how to stop

[lasloduncan]

other browser youtube runs like it should this has been this way since the last update 3 or 4 weeks ..I cant seem to overcome it.....ff ok tor ok brave ok opera ok..just safari ..ads when usuing youtube very dishearting -I dont want to sound whiney but I get really tired of spending days hours three or so times week eveytime some moron make a change without asking ...it is trying. got a load of all the various extenions on off clean deletes cache empties safe start safari reboot etc.....still there..thanks.so I just use ff...but $2000 imac and cant use safari...make any sense?

 

[Apple_Robert]

The app 1Blocker (Mac & iOS) does an excellent job of blocking YouTube ads, as well as Social widgets, comments and many other annoying things.

 

[lasloduncan]

thank you very much

 

[tyc0746]

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[vetoes]

AdGuard deals with them completely. 1blocker deals with them most of the time. Wipr occasionally shows white overlay that disappears after few sec and you can make it disappear on a click of a button.

 

[lasloduncan]

AdGuard deals with them completely. 1blocker deals with them most of the time. Wipr occasionally shows white overlay that disappears after few sec and you can make it disappear on a click of a button.

they dont seem to be working for me...imac 10.17.7

 

[vetoes]

You need to turn on all extension in Safari preferences for it to work, specially experimental one since that is the one that blocks YT ads. If something has change I wouldn't know since I stopped using AdGuard. Check on AdGuard forums.

I decided to go stick with Wipr (which I use for years on both iOS & MacOS) because is native, small, simple solution that doesn't ever breaks webpages for me. I know it will block 98-99% ads and in case of YT ads I occasionally see white background counting seconds that I just skip.

 

[ght56]

I use Wipr with Catalina and I am really happy with it. I am not using the most recent build of Catalina though, as I am on 10.15.7 build 19H2 (IIRC 19H15 was the one released a few weeks ago, which I originally had and downgraded back to 19H2.) Wipr is extremely simple by nature and it is very light on macOS resources.

I use 1Blocker on my iPhones. 1Blocker has quite a bit more customizability and has some pretty advanced features that I have not done a whole lot with. It is an excellent app as well. I would use it on my Mac if I wasn't already using Wipr.

 

[lasloduncan]

Thank you