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A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome.
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UPDATE: If you were an user before the update and the extension got disabled, that's normal behavior by Google, it's so an extension can't silently escalate its privileges with an update, in this case FadBlock accessing extensionpay.com for those who want to contribute, nothing else. Nothing to be scared about. You can read the new permissions to make sure nobody's pulling any funny business.
NOTE: And for those who are alarmed about the "Read and change your data" permission, it's not accessing any of your data, it's just to access the YouTube and YouTube Music (new feature!) tabs as it was doing before. You can read the documentation to make sure that's the case,
This is the permission required for an extension to work with the browser's tabs. This includes viewing the URL of an open tab. The permission does not give access to your actual browser history itself, but technically any extension with this permission could monitor tab URLs as they changed and construct its own history, so that's why the warning is phrased that way. If an extension asks for permission to access the actual browser history data, the warning should read "Read and change your BROWSING HISTORY...".
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/permission_warnings/
You can google this and find out, no need to trust the developer.
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This blocker is designed to monitor advertisements, automatically seek the ads and skip them on YouTube and YouTube Music as well. 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.
FEATURES:
This extension effectively eliminates all categories of YouTube and YouTube Music 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.
Install now and experience YouTube and YouTube Music the way it was meant to be—ad-free!
Latest reviews
- (2023-12-20) Tanner Nusbaum: Works great, Dont have to worry or deal with these ridiculous and brain-numbing ads anymore. Definitely worth the donate too. Author shows he cares on the GitHub
- (2023-12-14) Max Scheibenpflug: Yes! This is exactly how I want to give the finger to this capitalistic ad-mess! Let them have their forcing-their-ads-onto-me, I'll gladly load them. BUT I DON'T WANT TO _SEE_ THEM! After getting blocked by this new "AdBlockers are not allowed"-thing, this extension, together with whitelisting YT on my existing AdBlocker, did the trick for me. Very well done, Sir, playing the system as it should be played! Thanks a lot!
- (2023-11-21) seon lipperton: works good. and to all those who quit because of the ads. zip it, would you rather pay $6 once. or $25 every month ($300 a year). and to those moving because of the "monetisation" the mans gotta eat, pay the bills. and you wont donate to help him. grow up. this man is the key to the adblock-block problem i'd donate $25 if i could.
- (2023-11-20) Thiago Piardi: Helps with youtube ads, but adds a popup for selfpromoting that blocks the screen til you click on it.
- (2023-11-19) Nine Rogers: Clever solution to the problem. Works fine on Brave – ads flash up for only a fraction of a second before the video resumes, which I can live with. Remember to turn other adblockers off for YouTube. Kudos to the developer. To others whining about the new bug that makes Youtube go crazy, show a little patience. This is Google's fault for borking the code, not the developer's, and he's working hard to fix it. Sheesh. I've paid because I believe in him. This is a person trying his best that some of you are hating on.
- (2023-11-19) ywk: nonstop popup "one time contribution" to github, More annoying than YT ads, you so crazy, Immediately remove this app
- (2023-11-19) Angus Wong: It works (60~70% of the time), but it also adds its own overlay (also known as advertisement) urging you to pay 6$ as a donation sort of the thing almost everytime you opens up YT. That overlay is quite annoying and cannot be deleted via regular overlay blocker. I still managed to make that "paying" overlay invisible with my own ways though.
- (2023-11-18) Paul Kurz: Used to be good but now it doesnt work half the time and keeps asking you to pay a one time donation. Its sad but yeah dont use this anymore..
- (2023-11-18) D. R. Ferro: Tras la última actualización de Chrome, si se abre un vídeo de YT en una nueva pestaña, el vídeo va hasta el final. Si solo hay una pestaña, no hay problema.
- (2023-11-18) NV: por ahora funciona perfectamente en youtube es como si acelerara los anuncios, al punto en que ni te das cuenta ni cuando empezo el anuncio, por que ya finalizo, aun que a veces veran la pantalla negra de carga en youtube, pero en unos momentos se quita y empeza el video normalmente.( ultimamente esta fallando bastante, ya no te permite ver los videos, pues ahora los adelante de forma continua y sin parar, no puedes pausarlo ni regresar el video al inicio, por que vuelve a acelerarse, incluso cuando vuelves a cargar la pagina sigue igual y cada vez te aparece el anuncio el adblock.)
- (2023-11-17) Carlos Martínez: Asking for money all the time... very bad
- (2023-11-17) ZK 93: Anyone when watch video it stuck at blank screen around 30 second? YouTube home page no problem Fixed (found it is problem from Youtube need to clean the browser cache and cookie with All Time Option)
- (2023-11-16) マグマロック: 対策されたようですね 評価みて、再度体験したけどスキップすると 映像全部スキップになりましたね。 また、対策されたようです。
- (2023-11-16) The Indoor Outdoorsman: Works well enough, still had several interrupts from ads and on a few instances it totally failed to block it. Now though, it's become adware. No one is going to pay you to keep this going, especially so early on in the game of YouTube going full bore against ad blockers. Why would anyone spend $6 on something that may stop working the minute they make that purchase? I understand needing support to keep it going, but the message is more intrusive than the ads FAdBlock is meant to block, which defeats the entire purpose of having it! Suggestion, drop the message to once every six hours instead of every time any YouTube page loads. I feel compelled to update my review because there's been some important developments. 11/16/2023. Now it either will not work at all, or it will work, but also skips the video itself as well. When it skips the video itself, it also causes it to play without sound. Yet the developer is still asking for money with the popups. This is my breaking point. I'm uninstalling and looking for a different solution.
- (2023-11-15) eva siu: 之前失效,但更新後就能用了,已贊助支持
- (2023-11-15) George Lazureanu: WORKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS AGAIN
- (2023-11-15) Nick ye: It's working , good job.
- (2023-11-15) 廖耿晟: 是不錯 但是會變卡
- (2023-11-15) Tessier Ashpool: I don't like it when extensions ask me for more permissions, but given that extensions like adblock literally require access to all websites and this one only asks for two, I'd say that's pretty acceptable.
- (2023-11-15) Jose Estebanez: Used to work perfectly fine until today, and suddently ads both at the start and during videos have returned. Hopefully it will get fixed soon Edit: it works fine now
- (2023-11-15) Yeet: best plugin
- (2023-11-15) Dead Meteor: 復活了,來改評論weee
- (2023-11-15) 劉佺: Hope trolls rethink their 1-star reviews after trying the updates. Give it another chance!
- (2023-11-15) Nick Cline: Updated and fixed as expected! Thanks for your work.
- (2023-11-14) KG11: The extension does what it's supposed to do so no complaints on that part but it does make my YT very slow to the point it becomes unresponsive. Playlists/History/Shorts/Watch later tabs seem to take a long time to load also. I tested this with a control version with zero adblocks installed and all of the above was working fine so it's definitely not my device. If these issues can be resolved then the extension is perfect.
- (2023-11-14) C - ST4R!: Was brilliant up until today, now doesn't work, hope an update will get it back
- (2023-11-14) HonkiePlonkie: Thanks for keeping us safe from casino, scam and p*rn ads!! Youtube doesn't even know what ads they are running and thank you so much for preventing it! Will keep promoting your extention so people have a safe life on Youtube without falling back in the bad behaviors of gambling and p*rn addiction!
- (2023-11-14) Gavin Hughes: Have v 2.5 stopped working for me. Tried multiple different videos on youtube and the ads are back Edit: removing reinstalling and restarting chrome seems to do the trick!
- (2023-11-14) 田島陽介: 11/14の夜時点で正常に機能していることを確認
- (2023-11-14) 辛: 加速效果已恢復
- (2023-11-14) Gotoh Hitori: 失效了
- (2023-11-14) Dyos: Working again for me
- (2023-11-14) & roid (&roid): 機能更新されたのでしょうか? 先ほどから正常に機能して広告が圧縮され ストレスなく動画を見れるようになりました 更新ありがとう。
- (2023-11-14) miniops12: worked fine up until today, however i've found that it still works in incognito mode? a little odd and inconvenient, but still usable. not worried about switching yet edit: no longer works in incognito either, whole thing straight up doesn't function at all anymore edit 2: now working as intended, thank you for the update
- (2023-11-14) Rod Weiler: It was very good for a while. Then it stopped working for me around 3-4 days ago. "No big deal" I said to myself, thinking it just needs to be patched. However, as of the day of writing this ad, I can see the extension's been updated and the first thing I'm treated to on YouTube is a disgusting banner ad on top and an unskippable 15-second ad before the first video I click. This one has potential, and even an inherent entertaining factor as it's funny how the ads flash in front of you for a split second like some subliminal messages. But as a daily YT user I cannot wait for patches this long. Besides, the expansion leaves a lot to be desired - an ability to whitelist favorite channels; not advertising it's pro licence through an intrusive pop-up.
- (2023-11-14) 蛋捲PVP: 掰掰了
- (2023-11-13) Richard Caballero: Why need permission to read/change data particularly extensionpay.com ? https://i.ibb.co/1K9zyjF/Fadblock-YT-permission-to-expressoay.png
- (2023-11-13) Boris The Antarctic Unicorn: Works great when it's up-to-date. I don't know if this is possible but can an update button be added to the extension? It seems to be updated constantly and the extension doesn't work if it's too out-of-date. Would like it if I didn't need to remove then re-add the addon.
- (2023-11-13) Leon Y: Was working consistently until about a week ago? It now only sometimes work, and the rest of the time I need to restart the extension / browser / both to have it start working again. I mean I'd happily pay $6 for it if it would work stably but in it's current workig status, it may be too early to prompt users to pay with a pop-up window yet.
- (2023-11-13) 白色奇異果: 已GG 太多狂貼宣傳 怕官方不知道 好用也要低調不懂?
- (2023-11-13) ブルノプビル: 失效哭
- (2023-11-13) Wu Roy: useless
- (2023-11-13) weigone: 沒有效了
- (2023-11-13) Peter WONG: 在Chrome更新到最新版本(119.0.6045.124)後失效了
- (2023-11-13) Mir Owais Ali: MIght as well pay for youtube premium than pay for this.
- (2023-11-13) Anna P: doing god's work here, kudos for being so responsive
- (2023-11-12) 樊僅業: 無效插件
- (2023-11-12) Mx ABJ: Ad skipper, Love it but cannot work with Chrome version 119.0.6045.124 (Official Build) (64-bit)
- (2023-11-12) 亜門槙史: ここ、2,3日のあたりで広告ブロックが貫通するようになりましたね。 作者側も分かったのか、このブロッカーの有料宣伝も消えたので 対処まちでしょうか。
- (2023-11-12) 劉O閎: 完全沒用