YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has arrived for Firefox users (opens in new tab)

Had also subscribed to Premium but got annoyed by the ever bugged app on mobile, crashing way too often. Moved back to browser. Couldn’t care less as they just take my money but can’t provide a good experience. Just as a ransom to remove the ads is too little for that money they’re demanding. And too much trash in the shorts, it's like the Instagram feed all over again. Lots of unrelated recommendations. Without browser plugins that actually improve my UX on YouTube I wouldn't even bother to come back. This way I can actually see how bad the ratings are on lots of videos YouTube is recommending, trying to steal my time, even without displaying any ads… but why show me that kind of crap lots of people already disliked? I can't fathom how terribly YouTube evaluates user history.

So you're someone who likes Starbucks and gets their education from YouTube. Hmmm

yes of course everyone can afford that, right? and they wouldn't dare raise the price to ridiculous levels once the subscriber count is high enough, right?

At this time it seems the "anti adblock feature" is being rolled out casually. You might trigger it, you might not. I have FF+uBlock Origin and still saw it, pretended I was about to file a bug report on it, dismissed the pop-out, then got to see the video ad-free. I suspect this will not be the case a week or so from now.

I'm in the same boat. Eventually they made it so that after 3 videos you're blocked.

My subconscious rejoiced that I'd be free from the distraction hopefully forever, but then after applying the next Firefox update (I also have adblock plus) suddenly the popups stopped and I'm back to relying on my own strength of will to avoid youtube. It's not going well.