YouTube’s stopped allowing me to use adblockers now, and I’d honestly throw 14 dollars directly in the trash every month than send it to YouTube so I’m not buying Premium.
I was looking for any way to continue to block ads and an article from AdBlock Plus said:
>”Keeping your filter lists up to date so that any changes made by filter list authors are being applied to your extension.”
and
>”Using custom blocking rules when you see something you’d like to remove from a page.”
as a couple of it’s suggestions.
I have no idea what that means and it explains no further, other than how to do those things (I tried one and it didn’t do anything).
What do they mean?
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Ad blockers work by following rules. A rule might say “if you see an image coming from the site XXX.YYY.ZZZ, then block it” because whoever wrote that rule has learned that the server belongs to an ad company and does nothing but send out ads.
A filter list is just a bunch of rules.
Updating the filter list means exactly that: updating your ad-blocking rules so that they’re current.
Custom blocking rules let you make your own rules on things to block, in addition to whatever the filter lists are already blocking.
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