Best I can do is stop going to YouTube.

The moment they actually succeed in forcing ads on me, is the moment where I simply stop watching. Ads have become so frequent, so distracting, and so dangerous (scams, malware, disinformation) that they are pushing the world – not even just the internet – to the brink of destruction as more and more outrageous shit gets manufactured in the hope for clicks.

I will never pay for YouTube and I will NOT visit any site with ads. I do, however participate in patreons and other methods of paying creators.

I think someone’s quarterly goals include “reduce ad-free viewing hours” because every few months we get a half assed block that is countered hours later.

aww, they’re trying so hard.

Supposedly if you’re using a vpn albania is one of the few places that hasn’t been tainted by YouTube adware

I’ve got this a few times on both my Windows and Linux machines. Uninstalling uBlock Origin, restarting Firefox, and reinstalling uBlock Origin had always fixed it for me.

Scum gonna’ scum.

Websites dont have the ability to see what addons you are using. Youtube must be tracking and storing local traffic data to accomplish this.

Seems illegal