DuckDuckGo can now block YouTube ads for free. I tested it across multiple devices to see if it actually works — and it does.

Skip all the annoying YouTube ads, once and for all.

July 8, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google DuckDuckGo now lets you watch YouTube ...

The YouTube ad blocker crackdown is well underway, with the streaming service issuing annoying pop ups to people who continue to use the privacy preserving tools on its website. The YouTube ad blocker ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. This article is more than 2 years old. YouTube is ramping up its ad ...

The best part about one company revolutionizing video-sharing on the internet is that it gets the say in how awful that experience can be. After beginning to roll out a healthy nudge to turn off ad ...

YouTube reached out to us and provided the following statement “Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service, and we’ve been urging users for some time to ...

YouTube is waging an unending war against ad blockers, and today, there seems to be a big update that is causing many users to assume that YouTube has gone down entirely. Looking at Down Detector's ...

Update: October 31, 2023 (11:26 PM ET): After our original report about an increasing number of users being unable to use ad blockers on YouTube, the platform has confirmed to The Verge that it has ...

"The use of ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service. We've launched a global effort to urge viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try ...

YouTube ads have gotten way out of hand in recent years, but despite that, ads are still necessary to handle the costs of running the world’s largest video platform, and paying the millions of ...

Adblock for YouTube has over 11 million installations. However, it can inject script code into any page uncontrollably.