Brave Adblockers are now detected by YouTube & I want new windows not tabs--Win7

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@DianeL

Brave Support, re the running battle with YouTube ads:

-Adblock doesnt work - #12 by Mattches

-Youtube videos no longer playing - says "ad blocker"? - #7 by Mattches

My observations - here at the Brave Community - have been:

  • BB users who sign in to the Google-Sphere, report more often than BB users who are guests.

  • Both BB user categories sometimes find that using a VPN -AND- flipping through some of the available VPN connections, manages to restore the “expected behavior” (ie success).

In general, YouTube is more sensitive to adblock issues with Google-Sphere (Google eco-system) members. And Internet browser extensions make such issues more complex.

Extensions testing tips:

@lushydev

Extensions testing

  • Disable ALL extensions that you have added
  • Quit Brave Browser and Restart the Mac
  • Test the issue

Testing extensions

  • Enable extensions, one at a time, in order to individually test for issue - no combinations of extensions.
  • Leave installation / enabling of extensions that are anti-virus, ad-blocking, for last.
  • When installing anti-virus and ad-blocking extensions, install them / enable them, last. Anti-virus definitely at the end of the list.
  • (I would leave anti-virus and ad-blocking extensions out of all testing, until the end.)

Combinations of extensions

  • Enable combinations of extensions, in order to see which combinations of extensions will work without encountering the issue
Brave Shields tips:

I have more success, with:

  • Brave Shields UP
  • Either Allow All Cookies or Block 3rd Party Cookies, but NOT Blocking All Cookies
  • Allowing JavaScripts from specific sources, but NOT Allowing All JavaScripts
  • Trackers & Ads treatment: Aggressive (at first), and then incrementally relaxing that setting
  • Fingerprinting (aka footprinting) blocking: Strict (at first), and then incrementally relaxing that setting

I almost NEVER use:

  • All of Brave Shields UP
  • All of Brave Shields DOWN

Shields Basics

How do I configure global and site-specific Shields settings?

How do I use Shields while browsing?

Chrome/Chomium support for Windows OS 7, ended on Jan. 1, 2023.

Last Brave Browser stable release for Windows OS 7:

Release v1.47.186 (Chromium 109.0.5414.119)
Released January 25, 2023
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.47.186