Edit: I opened another tab in a separate Firefox container and didn’t get the pop-up. I believe I read this shit being account-based when the first reports of Youtube’s anti-adblock measures started making the rounds and it seems to be the case still
I would rather not visit youtube ever again than be forced to watch ads
There’s something uniquely enraging about online video ads that just instantly makes me go into a frothing rage. I guess the difference is that the way you interact with your computer or smartphone is a much more active experience as opposed to passively absorbing whatever’s on TV from a couch, so an ad on the former two feels like you’re being actively stopped dead in in the middle of whatever you’re doing to try to get you to buy something as loudly and obnoxiously as possible. When you get an adbreak on TV you just get up to get a glass of water or something or check your phone.
Using Ublock + firefox, I get the pop-up every few videos, but I can just exit out the pop-up and continue with it.
People kept telling saying ubo+ff was already up to date, but it hasn’t worked for me either.
I’ve gotten this popup, I just hit the x to close it and then my adblocker/sponsor block works as normal
You’ll eventually get a three strikes popup or it’ll block you from playing video. Then you have to update uBlock regularly :(
If anyone is looking for an alternative way to watch youtube videos without ads, FreeTube is a free and open source application that I would highly recommend. I prefer it over Invidious and Piped, and I haven’t had any issues with it so far !
