What does “Keeping your filter lists up to date” and “custom blocking rules” mean for an adblocker?

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

Filter lists are the lists that tell your adblocker what to block. These probably update automatically but may have failed to do so, this is what the first thing tries to fix.

Custom blocking rules are just that, custom rules you set up, to block part of a website. In uBlock origin there’s a relatively elegant visual tool, it’s symbol is a little lightning, idk how it would look in other adblockers, but I assume similar?

You can also straight up write blocking rules yourself, personally this is mostly beyond my understanding of website architecture/html.

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