Can I block YouTube and Spotify ads?

[lI_Simo_Hayha_Il]

Coming from AdBlock Plus in iOS, where I lost it, since it is not available anymore in AppStore, and got a new phone, which I couldn’t use my backup, I am really disappointed that Blokada cannot block both YouTube and Spotify ads.

I read some other posts about how hard it is, but I know that AdBlock did it very well and for 5+ years I was using it, I didn’t watch or hear a single ad from these two apps.

I tried to enable all available Lists, but didn’t work.

I would love to buy the premium and support this app, but I can find many free options for “normal” ads. My priorities are YouTube and Spotify, cause if I cannot block these two, why pay Blockada and not them, to remove ads…?

So, is there a way to make it work?

[PrintableCharacter]

Hi,
Here you go:

Can I block YouTube ads using Blokada?

Blocking ads on YT is very hard because Google uses encryption and randomly generated hosts to serve the ads. From our experience, Blokada may decrease the amount of ads in the YouTube ads, but does not remove all of them. In particular, video ads cannot be removed. There are a few steps you can take to improve your experience though. GoodbyeAds YouTube blocklist Since some time there is a new list, maintained by Jerryn70, with the purpose to block more ads on YouTube. There are mixed reports…

[lI_Simo_Hayha_Il]

Hi PrintableCharacter and thank you for your reply.
However as I already wrote, AdBlock Plus, a VPN app I had on my previous phone, was working perfectly, so there is a way.
Also, if you try uBlock Origin, a Firefox/Chrome plug in, works perfectly for YouTube too.

Hence, Blokada is missing something, the others don’t.

[PrintableCharacter]

@lI_Simo_Hayha_Il

Hence, Blokada is missing something, the others don’t

That might not be the case, it might simply be that we opted against HTTPS filtering which other applications perform in order to get rid of ads and placeholders
And here’s why we did so:

HTTPS Filtering

This article is brought to you by Tom Maddox. HTTPS Filtering: Sure, It Sounds Like a Good Idea Stop me if you’ve heard this one: you install an ad blocker (e.g. Blokada), but you still see those pesky sponsored links on Facebook, so you submit a feature request to the Blokada development team asking to the links to be blocked. It sounds like a simple enough request–just add a filtering rule to block those specific referrals. Unfortunately, the very mechanism designed to make Web surfing saf…

[DankBong420]

You have an Android device and never heard of YouTube Vanced? A reversed engineered app that gives you all premium features minus downloading and ad free, for free? Theres also YouTube Music with the same perks.

Google “Vanced Manager”