{"id":48978,"date":"2026-07-14T03:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=48978"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:02:33","slug":"i-tried-duckduckgos-new-and-free-youtube-ad-blocker-heres-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=48978","title":{"rendered":"I tried DuckDuckGo\u2019s new and free YouTube ad blocker. Here\u2019s how it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Imagine you\u2019re watching a YouTube video, completely invested in what\u2019s happening, and then an ad suddenly interrupts. It\u2019s annoying every single time, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one who feels that way. I\u2019d much rather install an ad blocker in a few minutes than pay for YouTube Premium just to avoid ads.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside is that YouTube has been getting increasingly aggressive about ad blockers, often showing warnings or refusing to play videos. I was almost ready to give up on ads and live with them until I came across DuckDuckGo\u2019s new free ad blocker option. I decided to give it a shot, and guess what? It worked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you\u2019re watching a YouTube video, completely invested in what\u2019s happening, and then an ad suddenly interrupts. It\u2019s annoying every single time, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one who feels that way. I\u2019d much rather install an ad blocker in a few minutes than pay for YouTube Premium just to avoid ads. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,361,370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers","category-features","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}