I’ve used Brave to skip Youtube ads, but now I’m getting hassled.
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Time to switch browser @ricardo81 
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I’m also getting blocked on YouTube. But, I just watch rubbish. So, when they consistently blocked Vivaldi, I just stopped watching YouTube. I guess that’s been a few years now.
Personally, I don’t mind advertising. But, there are three things about YouTube ads I don’t like. I don’t like hearing my CPU fan spin up for real-time bidding. YouTube ads don’t comply with the CALM Act. And, since I don’t have any cookies, I usually get served foot fungus ads or ninety-minute conspiracy theories.
If they just served contextual ads—based on the video I’m viewing—with a reasonable level of volume, then I would not need to block ads.
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Firefox has been my main browser forever, though Brave was useful for Youtube.
Same for me, the modern equivalent of watching night time soaps, but the ads are a killer. Patreon et al are great for paying good publishers but they’ll take their share too.
The in-line ads and sponsorships are ok for me also.
I constantly delete my channel/history but G in their underhanded additional tracking wisdom often remember my viewing habits.
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I haven’t seen a YouTube ad this decade, and I’ve been using Firefox with uBlock Origin. Haven’t ever noticed an issue!
Though admittedly I don’t watch that much YouTube.
I don’t see recommendations at all thanks to my uBlock Filters, so I don’t know what YouTube thinks I want to watch.
Is it so hard to run a loudness normalizer over it?! This is definitely among the worst things to have started happening since the big transition to streaming. No streaming service can keep their ads at a volume consistent with the show I’m watching.
I can’t speak to the quality of YouTube ads because the last time I saw one was probably in 2019.
In other news, Google Chrome is apparently starting to disable Manifest V2 for all users this month: Manifest V2 support timeline | Chrome Extensions | Chrome for Developers
Just as before, Enterprises using the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will continue to be exempt from any browser changes until at least June 2025. Starting in June, the branch for Chrome 139 will begin, in which support for Manifest V2 extensions will be removed from Chrome. Unlike the previous changes to disable Manifest V2 extensions which gradually rolled out to users, this change will impact all users on Chrome 139 at once. As a result, Chrome 138 is the final version of Chrome to support Manifest V2 extensions
Looks like the release will be out in 2 weeks. Google has delayed it enough times that I’m sure it’ll pass by with relatively little fanfare now.
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