DuckDuckGo can now block YouTube ads for free. I tested it across multiple devices to see if it actually works — and it does.

In a blog post, DuckDuckGo announced that its browser is now able to block most video ads, including on YouTube. According to ...

July 8, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google DuckDuckGo now lets you watch YouTube ...

DuckDuckGo‘s claim to fame is that the search engine doesn’t track user data in any way, protecting your privacy. But the search engine also has a few other things going for it including a simple user ...

Skip all the annoying YouTube ads, once and for all.

DuckDuckGo started as a privacy-focused search engine in 2008. Today it’s an entire privacy ecosystem: a search engine, a browser for every platform, browser extensions, email protection, a YouTube ad ...

If you came here looking for the “Advertisements” toggle in DuckDuckGo settings — the one every tutorial tells you to turn off — it’s gone. DuckDuckGo quietly removed it from their browser apps in ...

DuckDuckGo’s browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, although users may see longer buffering times or occasional ...

DuckDuckGo's browser now blocks YouTube video ads by default on several platforms, giving users another way around the usual ...