Ads on Youtube Music

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I have started receiving ads on Youtube Music (music.youtube.com)
I didn’t receive when I started using Brave.

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Brave Version: v1.0.0
macOS Catalina v10.15.1

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Could this be because of ads getting caught in DRM? Turn off Widevine from Settings > Extensions and try using YT Music - if it doesn’t work, it gets you “your” music over a DRM’d stream that may also keep ads out of the shields’ reach.

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@aragorn - we also released an update about an hour ago. Can you update and see if this fixes the issue?

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@steeven - Updated to the latest version v1.0.1 just now. That didn’t solve the problem.

@dorukayhan - Tried to run with Widevine turned off. That didn’t stop the ads too.

Any other ideas?

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I’m having the same issue :cry:

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@SlyOwlbeard - Did you try the above mentioned techniques?

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@aragorn Yes indeed, im up to date and have tried turning off Widevine

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  • Which direct link has youtube music ads?

  • If you install uBo extension, does it remove the ads? (if so, paste the blocked items)

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@fanboynz - I don’t quite get what you are trying to say…

  • You want me to paste the link of the music for which ads are present?
  • I have installed uBo extension, will experiment with it today and update. What do you mean by “paste the blocked items”?
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Using the ‘Logger’ it shows the blocked items. Gives me an idea what is being blocked (if uBo blocks the ad). screenshot of the logger window will do

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I don’t know what to look for in the logger.

Attached the output of it while playing few songs in a row.

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Did it play ads while having uBo enabled?

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No I’ve been listening with uBo for a while and I didn’t encounter an ad.

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Copy / paste the site-trackers in Shields (ctrl-c, ctrl-v, also disable ubo). I would test with private mode also, disable all extensions.

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Thanks for the assistance, @fanboynz

https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/sodar/5k7CCto5.html

This comes and goes in the “cross-site tracking blocked” during songs. (uBo turned off)

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Note; :||googlesyndication.com/sodar/ is blocked already

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Probably related. I would try a new profile and no extensions.

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@aragorn @SlyOwlbeard Here is a gif of me disabling/enabling sheilds on google music. https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/gif/google-music.gif

I would re-test in a new profile, but it seems to work well in stopping the ads.

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Surprisingly that seems to work! Switching OFF and then back ON the cross-site trackers seems to work for me.

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@SlyOwlbeard is your youtube music working okay?