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uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.

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Guide for uBlock if you suddenly get ads on YouTube. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Works 100% of the time for me. So far, anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does it do and why does it work?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It manually updates the list used to block the ad elements. The adblock devs are battling Google as Google is changing the elements to make the lists obsolete, hence why sometimes manual update is needed even with auto-update enabled.

[–] arin 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uBlock origin helps me keep my sanity