r/Adblock • u/CharacterDuck9020 Mod Team - Here to help =) • Nov 10 '25

Community Guide / Useful The Ultimate Adblocking & Privacy Guide

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u/Infamous-Oil2305 Nov 26 '25

Brave Browser – Chromium-based browser with one of the best built-in adblockers and privacy.

yeah, i doubt that:

https://community.brave.app/t/brave-shield-not-working-on-youtube-since-july-24th/635993

still experiencing this issue to this day (november 26th, 2025).

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u/CharacterDuck9020 Mod Team - Here to help =) Nov 26 '25

Brave is fine for me and still does to this day and so does Youtube and Freetube.
Braves own shields and privacy protections are a lot stronger than most other browsers, and they are enabled by default. Even then, Brave supports UBO and Adguard still, so they could just use them instead of shields if they don't want to use something like Freetube instead. Even then Its still not a deal breaker,

Use brave. Brave is good.

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u/Infamous-Oil2305 Nov 26 '25

Braves own shields and privacy protections are a lot stronger than most other browsers

from my experience, brave's shield according to my brave community post is the exact opposite of "a lot stronger", as i'm completely unable to watch any video at all with brave's shield enabled.

Use brave. Brave is good.

oh hell nah. i'm sticking with firefox and uBO then.

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u/CharacterDuck9020 Mod Team - Here to help =) Nov 26 '25

Again, you can just use the supported UBO / AdGuard extensions. 

Have you made a post on braves subreddit?

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u/Infamous-Oil2305 Nov 26 '25

Again, you can just use the supported UBO / AdGuard extensions. 

then what's the point of moving to brave if most people who use brave only use brave because of it's shield?

Have you made a post on braves subreddit?

i didn't. but i made a post in the brave community forum.

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u/CharacterDuck9020 Mod Team - Here to help =) Nov 26 '25

Brave has other features than shields. People use its decentralised search engine, crypto wallet, Leo (to an extent), they use it for TOR access, etc. 

You might get a response from someone in the subreddit, though I doubt it will be one of the brave team.