Adblock Plus Showing Ads Fastest Fix

Reference: [Adblock Plus on Firefox 100.0 - Windows 7]. So today I go on to YouTube and I'm surprised to see that Ads are showing up! Not only in the videos themselves, but also in the sidebar (I use a desktop PC). I can't have this. If I have to sit and watch Ads, on any site, I will literally never visit the site again if there is no way to remove them.

 

That's how much I hate Advertisements. Don't get me wrong, One or two that just sit in the sidebar or below content I can live with. I know sites need to earn revenue. But in-video advertisements, pop ups and pop-unders are just not acceptable to me.

Ads are not just showing up on Youtube either. I'm seeing ads in Google Search, Reddit, and even Bitchute. Some people were saying that Youtube had changed something and that's why they are seeing Ads. But like I said, for me they are / were on other sites too, so its obvious that Adblock Plus is broken. It's not blocking anything anymore.

 

So, what's the fix

This is the fastest fix ever. Are you ready. First off, uninstall Adblock Plus. Then go and install AdBlocker Ultimate. You can find it here for Firefox - and here for Chrome [its free]. Ads are now totally gone. If you are a dedicated Plus user and want to use it again in the future, you should be able to. Just give them a bit of time to find and fix the problems. In the meantime use Ultimate. Until the next time amigo.

Block Before You Continue YouTube Popup

How To: Block / Remove the Before You Continue YouTube sign-in Pop-up. This has become very annoying. YouTube just won't stop asking you to log-in. Only problem for me, is that my main Google account that I use everyday had its YouTube account banned due to me uploading a few Mike Tyson videos about 12 years ago. This seems crazy now because so many people upload those sorts of clips, and I doubt many get banned these days with "fair use" etc. Anyway, I'm banned. So I can't login even if I wanted to. 

I'm already logged into my Google account, but still, YouTube doesn't recognize this and just won't stop trying to get me to login or accept their privacy terms and conditions even though technically I already have because I'm logged in. We're stuck in a constant loop. Anyway, enough about all that. Today I'll show you how to remove all these annoying pop-ups quite easily.

 

How To Remove "Before you continue" sign-in message on YouTube

First things first: Go and download / install Adblock Plus. It's available for many browsers, including Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge. 

 

You can download it here: https://adblockplus.org/

Second: Go to Youtube and wait for the annoying pop-ups to appear. Once they do click the Adblock Plus icon at the top of your browser and use the "Block Element" feature. Click Block Element and just go and hover over the popup. Or, if using a mobile device tap the popup. If hovering, the area will turn red to signify what you are going to be blocking on the page.

Click on the popup and add it to the block list. 

 

Please Note: You may have to do this around 3 times to get rid of all the elements that need to be removed / blocked. There may be a full shadow over the whole page at one stage. Just use the block element in Adblock Plus again, click anywhere on the shadow and add it to the block list. Once you have done this procedure and blocked all elements Adblock Plus will save this information in the block list and you will never have to do it again. All the popups are now blocked.

An Alternative method to disable YouTube Sign in Prompt

If you want another way to block the popups that appear see below.

You still need Adblock Plus installed (can also be done with other adblockers - ublock origin etc), but I will provide you with the codes so you can put them in your blocklist (so method above not needed).

Click the Adblock Plus icon and click the COG symbol to get to the settings. Click the "Advanced" tab. Scroll down to the bottom until you see "My Filter List".

One by one, add the lines of code below to the filter list. Yes, the lines at the start of the first few are needed. Make sure they are all turned on (see the second image above, they are on / activated / being blocked).

Copy the codes below to the filter list:

||gstatic.com/ac/cb/cb_cbu_kickin.svg

||consent.google.com/?continue=https://www.youtube.com/&origin=https://www.youtube.com&pc=yt&hl=en-GB&gl=FR&if=1&m=0&l=0&uxe=23934718

||gstatic.com/youtube/img/promos/growth/dmod_si_horizontal_ver1_240x400.png

youtube.com###dialog

youtube.com##.style-scope.ytd-consent-bump-lightbox

youtube.com##.opened

 And that's it, all done.

With either of these methods, they both achieve the same result. However, one might be easier for some people to perform than the other, so I included both. Any questions just let me know. Until the next time amigo.

Disable "Feedback" Comments Wordpress

How To: Disable "feedback" Comments on Wordpress.org. The amount of people using BOT (automated) software to spam the hell out of WordPress websites is crazy high. Disabling the ability for visitors to leave a comment isn't good enough any more.

You can disable people from commenting, but then still get loads of spam comments coming through from the "feedback" form. For the majority of people, this sneaky backdoor comment enabling system is usually down to the Jetpack plugin and its contact form feature. It's enabled by default, and it's really annoying. So we need to turn it off.

However, if you search through the tabs trying to disable the contact form, you won't find any option to quickly turn this feature off. But the option is there. It's just hidden. Today I'll show you how to completely remove the feedback feature and totally remove the tab from the WordPress sidebar. Let's get started.

How To: Disable "Feedback" Comments from Wordpress.org

In the WordPress dashboard go to Jetpack and click the dashboard tab. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and you will see a line of greyed out links, which reads as follows: [Jetpack version 8.7.1 | About | Terms | Privacy | Modules | Debug]. Here is a picture.

Click Debug [Far right]

Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see a link that reads "Access the full list of Jetpack modules available on your site." See the image below with the location of this link highlighted in red.

Click the link

Upon clicking the link you will now see a list of all the modules. Find "Contact Form" [near the top] and deactivate it by clicking "deactivate". See the image below for the location [highlighted in red].

And that's it. Feedback comments are now disabled and the Feedback tab has also been removed from the WordPress dashboard sidebar. Hope this helped you out. Until the next time amigo.

How To: Embed Bitchute Video In Blogger

How to embed a Bitchute video in a Blogger post. Hello everyone, it's been a while since I wrote a post on this blog, so I thought I would write one on a subject that many people seem to be very confused about. Embedding Bitchute videos on WordPress works fine when using the recommended iframe code, but when it comes to Blogger (Blogspot), people just can't manage to get the video to embed. So today I will show you how to embed any Bitchute video on any Blogger blog. And you will not believe how easy it is.

If you tried to install a video using the YouTube embed code. As in, copy the embed code of a YouTube video and just replace the YouTube video URL link with the Bitchute video link you want to embed, you may have come across the "Blocked by X-Frame-Options Policy" error code. And to get that removed involves changing certain settings that really shouldn't need to changed in 2020 /2021. And if you just embedded the code offered by Bitchute, you would have no doubt seen that it just does not work on Blogger.

How to embed a Bitchute video in a Blogger post

Certain character codes won't work on Blogger. When associated with an iframe code on Blogger, Square brackets, which is these [ ], are not viable. So this is where the main problem is. Blogger needs and uses angle brackets (and also a closing iframe code), which is these < >. So all you have to do in order to embed a Bitchute video on a Blogspot blog is literally just change the ends of the iframe embed code from using [ ] to < > and add a closing iframe code (</iframe>). There is also one other small requirement (very easy). Read below.

Example: Below is the recommended code that is used on WordPress to embed / install a Bitchute video.

[iframe src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/UGlrF9o9b-Q/" width="100%" height="360"]

And below is the changed code to what we need to use in order to embed the video into Blogger. Just the arrows < > (angle brackets) at each end and a closing iframe code (</iframe>) are different. Everything else, other than the word "video" in the URL remains the same (See the Second Step below for the explanation).


<iframe src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/emQvJI3Jgr7m/" width="100%" height="360"></iframe>

Second Step

However, please note: If you are copying Bitchute links directly from your Browsers URL bar, which is what you will more than likely do, it won't come with the word "embed" in the link, which is what we need in order to embed videos. It will come with the word "video" in the link. This will not work on Blogger.

Example of a copied Bitchute link from the browser URL bar:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/UGlrF9o9b-Q/

As a result, you will also need to change where it says "video" in each URL link to "embed" for the video to embed correctly.

Example of the correct code below. This is how you need it to look (obviously using your own video URL link).


<iframe src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/UGlrF9o9b-Q/" width="100%" height="360"></iframe>

And here is the correct code in action (using a different video):

Software used in the video: Viddyoze

So, to summarize: Change the character symbols on each end from [ ] to < >, add a closing iframe code tag </iframe> and change the word "video" in each URL link you copy to "embed". And that's it.

I know there are a lot of people pulling their hair out over this issue, so I hope this helped you out. A share would be appreciated. Until the next time amigo.

Vista User? Time To Ditch Firefox

Anyone still using Firefox with the Vista Operating System will no doubt have been experiencing some very annoying stability issues. The problems are numerous, and will take too long for me to go through one by one. However, if you are completely sick of how problematic Firefox has become to use with Vista, the reason is because Firefox has now stopped all support for Vista OS.

So its time to ditch Firefox and find a better solution for browsing. Most people usually go for Google Chrome, but now even Chrome has stopped all support for Windows Vista users. You could always download an earlier version of Chrome and it will still work. However, it will be quite buggy and will no doubt become unstable and annoying to use at times.

As a Vista user myself, the browser I have moved on to is Pale Moon. It's very similar to Firefox but much faster and more stable to use. It's not perfect though. One area that it struggles with is captcha's. It can't click the "I'm not a robot button". This can be an inconvenience, but after a while you just get used to it. For important things that need me to solve the captcha, like submitting my website / blog posts to Google Webmaster Tools for indexing, I use Firefox.

So if you do download and use Pale Moon, make sure you keep Firefox installed on your computer and fire it up if you need to complete a captcha. Other than this issue Pale Moon has been a good browser so far to use with Vista 32bit and 64bit. I have Vista 64bit OS installed and I'm using Pale Moon version 27.9.4 (32-bit) and it works well. If you want to use that you can find that version here: https://ia601306.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/25/items/Pale_Moon_Archive_2015_08/Pale_Moon_Archive_2015_08.zip.

Or you can download the latest release here: https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml