#Ublock origin youtube ads series

uBlock Origin does more than block adverts it also prevents tracking. The plugin ships with preconfigured filter lists for common advertising and malware domains, and you may download more filter lists or read and write your filters using host files.

Which would mean to render the document, using pattern recognition delimit the area with the sponsored post, then pass those coordinates to the browser in order to select the currently visible element, then delete it.Įven then I could think of a thousand ways to beat this, because OCR can't see invisible things and you can do all sorts of fun stuff with invisible styling, and it'd be the same game of cat and mouse the ad blockers are currently running but at a higher level of abstraction. Yes, uBlock is an ad-blocking browser extension that can block ads on YouTube and other websites. Ublock Origin is an ad blocker for web browsers that prioritizes lightweight, effective blocking. I pulled it into uBO in its current form and it seems to work but Im not sure if this is something I should use long. Heres an example of the YouTube Shorts filter list Im interested in using. I found their GitHub repo but they use a YAML-formatted filter list. What you are proposing is another crazy AI solution, OCR. Im interested in importing some of the filters lists from into uBO.

#Ublock origin youtube ads series

The browser doesn't know it's rendering a word, it only knows it's rendering a series of divs with one letter on each, and it absolutely can't know what the visual representation of the divs spell.

The word 'promoted' might not even appear as text, it might be simply a series of divs with one letter each (out of order, of course) and then visually defined with CSS. Some websites may not work with uBlock Origin, but you can turn it off for specific websites by adding them to the whitelist. Turn on uBlock Origin by clicking the power button and refreshing the page. Should it ban every element containing 'promoted'? Even posts by people? Installing uBlock Origin: - Go to the extension store for your browser and add uBlock Origin. The browser has no context for what it is rendering. Can you do these steps (follow strictly the step order, dont mix the steps orders, or skip any steps): Click on uBO icon > 'The logger' icon, it will open a logger window.