# AdBlocker for YouTube™ Video

> removes all sorts of advertisement and banners from YouTube

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-adblock](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-adblock)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-adblock`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Emmy
- **Category:** privacy-security,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 5,612
- **Weekly downloads:** 38
- **Rating:** 3.36 / 5 (85 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.6resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2015-07-03
- **Size:** 32 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-adblock/)

## Description

AdBlocker for YouTube™ Video is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your YouTube experience by removing all advertisements and banners. This ensures a distraction-free environment, allowing you to focus solely on the content you want to watch. It uses hard-coded filtering rules to provide seamless and efficient ad blocking without compromising video playback quality. 

Please note that while this extension blocks ads, it does not remove YouTube annotations; however, these can be disabled manually via the YouTube player control panel. Ideal for users seeking smoother, cleaner video streaming on YouTube, AdBlocker for YouTube™ Video offers an easy and effective solution to avoid interruptions.

## Rankings

- #1,113 — Overall
- #180 — Photos, Music & Videos
- #233 — Privacy & Security
- #6 — adblock for youtube
- #20 — adblocker
- #36 — adblock

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`
- `webRequestBlocking`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users are split: several report the add-on effectively removes YouTube ads with minimal setup, but the most common complaints are that it disables the comment box, is unreliable (fails after updates), and can break playback (black screen/error). Overall, major negatives appear in multiple reviews and outweigh mixed positive reports.

### Pros

- Blocks YouTube ads for some users — multiple reviewers say it ‘works’ to remove ads.
- Works on certain setups (several users report successful ad blocking, including one mentioning MX Linux).
- No configuration reported by users who found it effective — simple ad removal out of the box for some.

### Cons

- Blocks the YouTube comment box — prevents posting or sorting comments (reported by many users).
- Unreliable or stops working frequently — several reviews state it doesn’t work most days or after YouTube updates.
- Can break playback for some users (reports of black screen/playback error instead of ads).

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- [Youtube Banner Ad-Blocker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-banner-ad-blocker) — 7 users

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-adblock)