It's funny. Before this crackdown none of my co-workers used adblockers. To install an add-on was too much hassle. They just watched the ads.
Now suddenly they became interested after hearing about them again, and almost all are running Firefox with ublock origin now.
YouTube should have just kept quiet, I don't believe they are better off now more than before.
If Twitch taught us anything, this is just the beginning.
What happened on twitch?
Twitch embeds ads directly into the stream now. They're next to impossible to block now, though I've heard some people say it's still possible.
Great, let the Streisand effect bite Google in the bum.
This is a big reason Google wanted to push the whole “web integrity” thing. There would have been no way to use an adblocker after that and they would have won the blocking wars. It’s bad enough they’re gimping Chromium with Manifest v3, but they tried for it all.
Or use adnauseam and fuck up their ad-tracking infrastructure beyond just blocking the ads
I actually had to get rid of adnauseam because YT detected it pretty consistently, ublock origin as of this comment still works fine on YT though.
From what I understand AdNauseum is built on top of uBlockOrigin so you supposed use it instead. The thing is that it isn't as frequently updated and due to recent YouTube wars this is currently required.
A miniscule amount of tomfoolery
uBO + iFrame script + Clickbait Remover + YouTube NonStop, the only way to clean up the YT crap and don't want to or can use a front-end or desktop client.
Great suggestions.
I'd strongly recommend Dearrow instead of Clickbait remover now (I used to use Clickbait).
It's made by the same developer who made Sponsorblock, which I also strongly recommend (it skips over in-video sponsors, title sequences, non-music sections in music videos, etc.). Just remember to turn it off for channels whom you wish to support.
YouTube won't work with ublock on Vivaldi...
Gotta disable Vivaldi's integrated Adblocker and use uBlock only, at least that's what fixed it for me.
Worked for me as well. Thanks!
I noticed that the Behind The Overlay extension in Firefox can also defeat the YouTube ad blocker pop up.