AdBlock causing YouTube errors when trying to load videos in Safari

[jakeuten]

I have a 2020 MBP and am noticing that when using Safari with Adblock enabled YouTube spits out errors when clicking on videos. When I disable Adblock, all is good. Has anyone else noticed this behavior and can anyone recommend a fix outside of using Chrome or Firefox? I prefer the battery life I get on Safari over the features those browsers offer.

Thanks!

 

[Taz Mangus]

I have not used Adblock. I use Wipr and it seems to work well with YouTube.

 

[tyc0746]

You could just disable AdBlock for youtube?

 

[t0xicgrief]

I have a 2020 MBP and am noticing that when using Safari with Adblock enabled YouTube spits out errors when clicking on videos. When I disable Adblock, all is good. Has anyone else noticed this behavior and can anyone recommend a fix outside of using Chrome or Firefox? I prefer the battery life I get on Safari over the features those browsers offer.

Thanks!

youtube intentionally broke ad blockers, the only way to fix that would be contacting dev or switching to other ad blocker like wipr (paid) or adguard for safari (free)

some ad blockers support custom filter rules, if thats your case just add those rules

||youtube.com/*/base.js$replace=/(playerResponse.adPlacements|playerResponse.playerAds)/_ad/
||youtube.com/*/base.js$replace=/(playerAds|adPlacement[a-zA-Z]+)/_da/
youtube.com#%#//scriptlet("json-prune", "playerResponse.adPlacements playerResponse.playerAds adPlacements playerAds")
youtube.com#%#//scriptlet("set-constant", "ytInitialPlayerResponse.adPlacements", "undefined")
@@||youtube.com/get_video_info
!#endif

 

[jakeuten]

youtube intentionally broke ad blockers, the only way to fix that would be contacting dev or switching to other ad blocker like wipr (paid) or adguard for safari (free)

some ad blockers support custom filter rules, if thats your case just add those rules

||youtube.com/*/base.js$replace=/(playerResponse.adPlacements|playerResponse.playerAds)/_ad/
||youtube.com/*/base.js$replace=/(playerAds|adPlacement[a-zA-Z]+)/_da/
youtube.com#%#//scriptlet("json-prune", "playerResponse.adPlacements playerResponse.playerAds adPlacements playerAds")
youtube.com#%#//scriptlet("set-constant", "ytInitialPlayerResponse.adPlacements", "undefined")
@@||youtube.com/get_video_info
!#endif

Appreciated! Thanks!