Workarround by MS, switch the UA of your browser to Windows Mobile https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/10/windows-phone-user-agent-allows-you-to-block-youtube-ads-as-a-temporary-workaround/
Another (better) one is to use an userscript
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/477725-youtube-iframe-adblocker
You also can watch YT on desktop with the SMplayer, sandboxed in the search results in Andisearch or in the Vivaldi Feedreader without ads, if you don’t like to switch continuosly between front-end instances.
A lot of channels from YT are also in Odysee
More FuckYT scripts https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=youtube
Hmm, I don’t see ads on YT, but neither do I see any adblock warning. Looks like I’m striking the right balance.
At this point, Google can have YouTube I’m out
Yeah I’ll just use [insert other popular video sharing platform here] instead. Oh wait, there aren’t any…
Right? It’s like they don’t want people to have an account on their site.
So… If I understood the video correctly, Google YouTube just hard-blocked Google Chrome browser (and soft-blocked Chromium-based browsers) because they’re trying to block adblockers? They’re making this so much harder than it needs to be.
