A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.
This was posted over reddit a few months ago, Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube. Is this a new thing they've implemented? and judging by all the recent comments and posts all over r/youtube, this change was just rolled out on a larger scale.
This blocker is designed to monitor advertisements, automatically seek the ads and skip them. It's important to note that this doesn't classify as traditional ad blocking, as the ad content is technically "loaded".
Nevertheless, the extension's underlying logic enables it to fast-forward through the ad content to its conclusion. The entire process is optimized to occur within an extremely brief timeframe, typically <=50 milliseconds, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted user experience.
This extension effectively eliminates all categories of YouTube advertisements:
Category 1: Ads visible on the homepage.
Category 2: Ads overlaid atop the suggested video list.
Category 3: Ads displayed below the video description.
Starting on April 6th, 2023, the “Overlay ads” ad format will no longer appear on YouTube to help improve the viewer experience and shift engagement to higher performing ad formats on desktop and mobile devices. Overlay ads are a legacy ad format that only served on desktop and are disruptive for viewers.
Category 4: Skippable 5-second-must-be-watched video ads, which may be positioned at the video's start, midway, or at the end.
Category 5: Ads similar to Category 4, but with two consecutive video ads instead of one.
Category 6: Inescapable 10-second video ads, which must be watched.
- It is not working!
You will have to disable other adblockers as they are getting detected not fadblock.
You can also add youtube.com to the exception list for domains on other adblockers (uBlock Origin, AdBlock) and then download fadblock to override regular adblock being prioritized on YouTube while the conventional adblocker will work across the remainder of the Internet.
- Chrome extension says "Read your browsing history"?
Prime example of Google being nonsensical, again. Firefox doesn't and they share the same code. (read in detail here)
- Why there's no privacy policy?
There’s no privacy policy as there’s no data collection at all, not even analytical data for error reporting. Everything happens locally. No remote connections are made, nada!
- How do I use it for my phone?
Unfortunately there’s no app or anything. You cannot install Chrome extensions on the Chrome browser on Android, but several Chromium-based third-party browsers support extensions (e.g. brave browser).
Note: You will have to leave YouTube app and watch over a browser (not very elegant, sorry)
This section explains on how to install the extension utilizing the developer mode as well as Chromium-based browsers,
Opera Browser: Go to the extensions manager page (opera://extensions), turn on developer mode and click on Load Unpacked.
Edge Browser: Go to the extensions manager page (edge://extensions), turn on developer mode and click on Load Unpacked.
Brave Browser: You can visit Chrome Web Store and download the extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fadblock/mdadjjfmjhfcibgfhfjbaiiljpllkbfc).
- Follow me on GitHub @0x48piraj for updates.
- I do not ask for donations, all I ask is that you star (⭐) this repository.
This software is provided for educational purposes only and is provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. in no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.