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

First. uBlock Origin is superior.

Second; Filter lists are simply a list of items that get filtered (blocked). New ways of displaying unwanted ads appear all the time, so it’s important to keep these lists updated to block these new ways.

Updating these lists is simply a matter of opening uBlock Origin’s settings, clicking on Filter Lists, and clicking Update now.

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