I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.
What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?
I literally just block it with Ublock Origin and Adguard as firefox extensions. Not even a VPN or anything. Only for, like a week did I get some popups telling me that Youtube didn’t allow adblockers. I then closed those popups, and everything went as normal, no ads or anything. Those popups are already gone
So yeah, try that. Save yourself from giving 15 bucks a month to one of the biggest goddamned corporations on the planet. It’s not like that money was gonna go to better pay their employees anyway
Yep, if you see the popups just refresh your filter lists and restart. Longest I’ve had to wait is about an hour for a fix, and that was a while back. Fixes seem to be coming much faster now as more people are watching this.