

The Brave browser works best in blocking ads on YouTube when it’s used with it’s default “out the box” settings, without changing any Shield settings or anything else. This is the first thing to point out, from talking to other people who’ve successfully used the Brave browser to block YouTube ads:

Solution #1 – Use or Restore Default Brave Browser Settings Let’s look at the different fixes there are for this problem. I tried tweaking around with the Shield settings, plus using the default ones, but for whatever reason, ads still continued to play on YouTube videos on the Brave browser no matter what I did.īut it’s not the end of the world, as it’s still possible to get an ad-free experience on YouTube, and there’s a couple of ways of doing it. But some users – including myself when I first tried it – find that it doesn’t block them for some reason. It’s meant to stop these ads from loading for a better experience using the platform.Īnd from what I’ve seen, most users who try Brave find that it does work in blocking YouTube ads.

The Brave browser is a fantastic free alternative browser for privacy conscious internet users, and one of the main selling points of it is that it blocks those annoying video ads that pop up (a lot) when you play YouTube videos.
