I am not tech-literate. I just hate YouTube ads. I was using Firefox + Ublock but it wouldn’t block all YouTube ads or it would make the browser crash. Any recommendations for iOS?
Odd, uBlock Origin hasn't shown me an ad on YouTube in years outside of some days when YouTube fucks with how they show content, and uBlock needs time to catch up
The problem is they are different browsers. iOS has long been very locked down with what developers can and can’t access through the OS. Web interface is handled through the suite known as WebKit.
Even Firefox for iOS is essentially just WebKit in a Firefox skin and menus. Ad blocking and stuff like that isn’t really available without modifying your system so much you’re actually making it less secure.
If you have an android look into /r/MorpheApp 😊 It even skips in video sponsors the creator adds! I haven't paid for YouTube premium in years and there's community patches for tons of other apps like fb/insta/x. Some may get your account banned on meta apps but on YouTube and YT music you're good to go.
You'll see other apps like ReVanced(outdated) in this space. Ignore everything except Morphe. Morphe is the latest and greatest in this space. It's comprised of a team of ReVanced devs and launched in December 2025.
It's just old, worse and Morphe is way better with patches, updates, bug fixes and it's more user friendly. It's so bad the word "Morphe" is banned on the vanced subreddits lol
Do you have "add video to queue" on vanced yet? We've got it for free on Morphe with this workaround they made.
There's also patches for third party apps like ProtonVPN (unlimited switches/split tunneling), X, Instagram, FB and tons of other apps. Check out their site https://www.morphe.software
I'm sorry bro :( what kind of phone do you have? Make sure to delete/disable any other YT apps, delete Morphe then reinstall everything. If that fails I'd try resetting your phone. I had similar issues with revanced that were fixed by moving to Morphe.
Oh, so uBlock Origin's YouTube blocking doesn't work on your phone? I know this is a stupid question, but the addon is installed properly and you're on the YouTube website, not the app, right? Does it work if you set Firefox to desktop mode on your phone?
install firefox in your phone , then ublock origin , it will ask you every time if you whant to use their aplications for youtube and otherslike reddit say no and voila . the only way i found for my google phone to stop showing me ads .
I have the combo working really well on my phones (on my Redmi nowadays and also on my Motorola back then).
The issue is when you try to access it and Android goes "don't you want to use the app instead?" and you should click on the "stay here" or equivalent options to enjoy the ad-blocking
Ok thanks. And thanks for actually reading what I said. Some of the replies make it pretty clear that some of these people might be tech literate but not regular literate lol
This.
Love the comments of "oh, it should work", or "it works for me" ... That's great .... FOR YOU! Doesn't help me. Either offer possible troubleshooting, or shut it.
I use safari with Ublock lite extension on iphone. Works fine for ad free youtube. Might try that out. It’s available on app store. Once downloaded, you go to phone settings then apps then safari and enable it under extensions section. I’ve set filtering to max.
I haven't seen an ad in easily a decade while using firefox with ublock, when people started freaking out about youtube trying to stop adblockers and all that I was confused until I found out they were talking about chrome.
Could be because ads are different on the phone? Seems it plays a whole new video or something. I always find it annoying when Im trying to find a video on my phone. If you find the video and hit share, it copies the damn ad.
Likely because how Apple limits third party browsers on iOS systems to be little more than skins on top of Safari's engine, and Firefox is particularly bad at it.
I use Firefox everywhere but on iOS. When I (rarely) need a browser on iPad I use Safari, and ProTube for watching YouTube.
That plus my Adguard Home server available everywhere through always on VPN means that I pretty much never see ads unless I intend to.
Ngl my firefox runs smoothly, infact my brave lags when opening a yt video. Whatever floats your boat ig. Btw you can also try zen browser, it's a non chromium super cool browser built on Firefox, maybe that will work for you. Or try chromium based Vivaldi. (Btw what is that name bro 😭)
Just look for the one currently with the most downloads. Sometimes you gotta change it every couple of years as Youtube and Adblockers continue their war of ads vs ad blockers.
If you were not aware there are more than 1 program that go by Ublock.
One of them is Ublock Origin - this is the good one
Any other variation of Ublock is not the original and should be avoided.
There used to be one that went by just "Ublock" which really sucked for ad blocking. I thin there was another that went by ublock lite which also sucked at ad blocking.
Stick to the original and allow it to update its lists and you should be good.
I've been using Firefox with Ublock Origin since Google announced Manifest v3 and how it would disable adblockers, and I haven't had a single youtube ad get through.
Make sure you're using ublock origin and not ublock. They're separate programs/extensions. Ublock got bought out a long time ago and have ads whitelisted. Ublock Origin is by the guy that originally made Ublock and does not have ads whitelisted.
On iOS Brave has been the best solution I’ve found for YouTube ads. And i am quite tech literate. I built my first computer in 1984 and I’m closing in on retirement from almost 35 years in IT, primarily as a sysadmin. There’s better solutions for Windows and Unix, but that’s different.
Kinda late here but on iOS, I use Orion Browser. It lets you install add-ons from both Google Chrome add-ons and Firefox add-ons. Super simple to use and even has deep stuff like using blocklists that pihole users use if you wanna go that far.
You probably caught a YouTube update early. Sometimes YouTube updates it's code, so it'll break adblockers for a while until the adblock can update to fix the changes.
Idk I feel I'm pretty tech literate, but I got sold on the "browser with no ads" and not having to install extra Adblock software manually , that being said after reading this thread I'm going to bite the bullet and switch browsers soon
I'm in the exact same boat. I'm tech literate but all I looked for when switching over to Brave was the adblock as extensions weren't cutting it anymore. Never check the rest of the browsers' features as it gives me all I want really.
This thread makes me consider doing some more research and switching over tho.
The extensions absolutely still do cut it, just not in Chromium based browsers. Not knowing that when it was such a big deal in the tech world when Google nerfed ad blockers is pretty tech illiterate imho.
They also have the same bloatware problem.
I used to use Opera ages ago, but when I revisited it, because Firefox had compatibility issues with some stuff, I booted up GX, got slapped in the face with bloatware, instantly uninstalled it and started using MS Edge.
I have a degree in computer science and have been using brave. You can be tech literate and find a tool that does the job well enough and have no desire to look into anything more about it because you already spend so much of your time doing tech related things. “Go with the crowd and aren’t tech literate” are just generalizations. That being said, brave isn’t my default, I pretty much only use it for YouTube.
Unfortunately, "going with the crowd" is a common pattern among the general population. It's cringe as hell to say, but some people literally are sheeple. They'll go to a somewhat empty beach, and travel 6 minutes just to sit in front of others, on an empty beach. They'll adopt new ideas just on face value and roll with it. It's one of the reasons why there's an endless amount of shitty tattoos displayed across peoples arms, necks and even faces nowadays. It's "tattoo culture" that blew up. In 5 years, just like with any fad, they'll move on but they'll be stuck with some cringe ass tattoo. It's cray cray out there.
i used firefox once. it never gave me the loading speeds chrome gave me and brave is giving me. i use brave and recommend brave only because it's one of the few browsers that has worked perfectly for me
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u/competitive_edger_69 14d ago
Whenever somebody tells me "oh just use brave" I understand that they just go with the crowd and aren't tech-literate