Or how Google decided to choke on its own greed.

Noticed it for a single day, then ublock must've updated and everything works fine again.
I will drop YT entirely before I watch a single shitty ad on there, let alone pay for a sub.

Google trying its best to destroy adblockers and adblockers going "lmao low diff" is sooooo entertaining.

I have a Premium subscription, but I can give you an even bigger reason to never use YouTube. They actively push brain rot in their search. No matter what words I use to search for something, it is almost always the same results. Looking for nostalgic videos from the 90s? YT: "Here is the most recent brain rot on the Internet."

Interesting writeup with some interesting techniques. I should read these some more

Use the grayjay app from the FUTO team

I paid for their app and I've never felt more torn about recommending a product. On the one hand, it works pretty darned well (except for the inability to comment ON YouTube). On the other hand, I've contacted their support at LEAST three times and have no response. No bueno.

Wait, what do you mean you paid? That's a free app

It is both paid and free.

I finally had to update (19.16.39 --> 20.12.46) and repatch my YouTube on Android via ReVanced. I'll probably need to do that again in 6 months. I use uBlock Origin and LibreWolf on PC and SmartTube on my TV. I hope Google understands I won't be watching YouTube with ads.

ReVanced

Continuing the legacy of Vanced. ReVanced has 40 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

GitHub (github.com)

LibreWolf

Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

Codeberg.org (codeberg.org)

uBlock Origin – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download uBlock Origin for Firefox. Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.

(addons.mozilla.org)

Home

Free premium app for Android boxes and tvs

SmartTube (Official Site) (smarttubeapp.github.io)

I use Pop_OS & the other day I was browsing the Store & stumbled on this app called 'youtubedl-gui'. Then I found out it's also available via apt.

Really cool little piece of software. Maybe check it out

'"Mark Zuckerberg buys WhatsApp", what a douche... It's free in the play store!'

Sams everything

From the Grayjay FAQ:

Does Grayjay require a subscription?

No, We offer a way to pay for the app once. The app will function identically without paying.

YouTube is really cool right now. The video ads that come up are ai voices just rambling about some new discovery and a minute in I have no idea what the ad is supposed to be for. Another cool thing that happened while I was at work was YouTube showed me some sort of blocky AI generated image in the top left right of what appeared to be a woman performing fellatio. The neat thing was that it was an ad for roof repair.

I wonder how much they spend trying to defeat adblockers versus how much revenue they lose because of them.

Something tells me that 5 years from now YouTube will no longer exist