An ad-free Android TV(cretezy.com)
334 points by CraftThatBlock | 144 comments
A blog tutorial explaining how to remove ads from Android TV and Google TV, including the home screen banner and YouTube ads.
#ad-blocking on Hacker News
28 stories tagged ad-blocking, newest first.
System-level ad-blocking in Android(kevinboone.me)
45 points by birdculture | 31 comments
Kevin Boone's article explaining how to block ads system-wide on Android in 2026 using DNS-based methods rather than per-app blockers.
Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS(blog.mozilla.org)
547 points by HieronymusBosch | 173 comments
Mozilla's Distilled blog post announcing a built-in ad blocker for the Firefox browser on iOS.
Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO(webiterate.dev)
606 points by twapi | 459 comments
Blog post reporting that Google removed all remaining Manifest V2 extensions, including uBlock Origin, from the Chrome Web Store.
Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker(support.mozilla.org)
639 points by pentagrama | 255 comments
Mozilla support article explaining how to block ads in Firefox for iOS; the captured page shows only a loading spinner.
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin(pcworld.com)
1603 points by DemiGuru | 608 comments
PCWorld news article reporting that Firefox is the last major browser still supporting the uBlock Origin ad blocker after Chrome's Manifest V3 changes.
uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook(digitalescapetools.com)
644 points by Markoff | 780 comments
An article reporting that uBlock Origin has stopped trying to filter Facebook ads; the captured page shows only a Cloudflare bot-verification screen.
Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension(neowin.net)
345 points by d3Xt3r | 322 comments
Neowin news article on Google Chrome permanently dropping Manifest V2 extensions, ending uBlock Origin workarounds, with Edge and Opera expected to follow.
uBlock Origin Lite Apple App Store(apps.apple.com)
348 points by mumber_typhoon | 177 comments
Mac App Store listing for uBlock Origin Lite, a free, efficient content blocker by Raymond Hill for Safari on Mac, iPhone and iPad.
No adblocker detected(maurycyz.com)
532 points by LorenDB | 288 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author added a banner that tells visitors without an adblocker to install one such as uBlock Origin.
uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari(apps.apple.com)
1073 points by Jiahang | 423 comments
Mac App Store listing for uBlock Origin Lite by Raymond Hill, a free content-blocking extension now available for Safari on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
How to Firefox(kau.sh)
623 points by Vinnl | 367 comments
A blog post arguing for switching from Chrome to Firefox after Chrome disabled uBlock Origin, and describing how the author sets up and uses Firefox.
YouTube's new anti-adblock measures(iter.ca)
851 points by smitop | 1169 comments
A blog post explaining YouTube's A/B-tested anti-adblock measures such as fake buffering, and a uBlock Origin filter written to partially avoid them.
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)(ericdraken.com)
710 points by udev4096 | 412 comments
Blog post describing how to block YouTube ads on Apple TV by using a man-in-the-middle proxy to decrypt traffic and strip ads from Protobuf responses.
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store(chromewebstore.google.com)
1610 points by non- | 803 comments
Chrome Web Store listing for uBlock Origin showing a warning that the extension may soon no longer be supported and suggesting alternatives.
Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge(neowin.net)
671 points by thombles | 399 comments
Neowin news article reporting that Microsoft Edge has started disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions.
Pi-hole v6(pi-hole.net)
482 points by tkuraku | 237 comments
Pi-hole blog post announcing the release of Pi-hole v6, the open-source network-wide DNS ad blocker.
SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube(sponsor.ajay.app)
534 points by anotherhue | 306 comments
Homepage of SponsorBlock, an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and API that skips sponsor segments and other categories in YouTube videos.
“Attention assault” on Fandom(j3s.sh)
339 points by todsacerdoti | 164 comments
A personal blog post titled "Stop Using Fandom" criticizing the Fandom wiki platform's intrusive ads, which the author calls "attention assault."
YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster(old.reddit.com)
516 points by znpy | 539 comments
A Reddit r/webdev post sharing a YouTube Ad Skipper tool that plays ads at 16x speed in response to YouTube blocking ad blockers.
YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox(old.reddit.com)
1635 points by csvm | 402 comments
Reddit thread in r/youtube reporting that YouTube appears to artificially slow video load times for Firefox users; the captured page shows only a Reddit sign-up form.
Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
585 points by rKarpinski | 635 comments
Show HN post presenting Ad Accelerator, a Chrome extension that mutes, speeds up 10x, and skips YouTube video ads, with links to the Web Store and GitHub code.
Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening – EFF (2021)(eff.org)
383 points by tambourine_man | 149 comments
EFF article from December 2021 criticizing Google Chrome's Manifest V3 extension platform as deceitful and harmful to privacy and security extensions.
uBlock Origin 1.53(github.com)
444 points by archo | 234 comments
GitHub release page for uBlock Origin version 1.53.0, with install links and commit comparisons for the browser ad-blocking extension.
YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin(andadinosaur.com)
581 points by mrzool | 596 comments
Blog post by Zhenyi Tan documenting what he knows about YouTube's escalating anti-adblock measures and how uBlock Origin responds to them.
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf(ericdraken.com)
1080 points by rolph | 581 comments
A blog post describing how to block YouTube ads on Apple TV by using a man-in-the-middle proxy on pfSense to decrypt traffic and strip ads from Protobuf responses.
uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox(addons.mozilla.org)
604 points by tech234a | 299 comments
Firefox Add-ons listing for uBlock Origin Lite by Raymond Hill, a permission-less content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, and miners.
Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing(neelc.org)
513 points by neelc | 236 comments
Blog post arguing Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal resembles Microsoft's ill-fated Palladium trusted computing initiative and threatens ad blockers.