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BotchQue

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Dec 22, 2019
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Since Ewetube began completely blocking content if you use any ad-blocker Extensions, I'd set up a second Profile on my machine just for Ewetube, thinking to disable the ad-blockers just for Ewetube videos on that second Profile, while keeping them operable on my "main" Profile.
When I set up the second, Ewetube-only profile, and go to "Extensions", I get another option to "Manage Profiles", and can turn off my usual ad-blockers. But then, when I go back to my main Profile, and click on "Extensions", my four Extensions show up with Blue check boxes, that aren't checked but have a "Minus" sign in them. If I turn them back on, then they get turned back on on my EweTube Profile also.
"Profiles" is fairly new and I'm sure Apple will sort this out soon, but just wondering if anyone here found a workaround (it did take me a couple days to figure out the "Favorites" file for Safari is always attached to your original page/Profile, and you had to point your Favorites selection on any new Profile to a separate Bookmarks folder).
 
Okay, I think I fixed my issue.
I went to each of my commonly-used websites, and instead of worrying about different Profiles, I just noticed going to "Safari > Settings for "website XX", and there you can enable/disable ad blockers for the current website. Since I only have a dozen or so sites I visit daily, that took about six minutes to set up, and I don't have to worry about Profiles at all; just a bit of info for anyone else with my issue.

Tomorrow I'll revisit some of the older threads that talked about Ewetube-specific ad blockers; not having ads for almost two years and then suddenly getting inundated with them again, is frustrating.
 
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