Unfortunately, now yt sees the use of an ad blocker (including ublock origin) and either forces viewers to subscribe ($15 per month - no!) or allow ads. If they don't, yt will block the device's access after 3 videos (per their pop ups).
I haven't seen a workaround for this, but I'll bet someone will come up with something.
The browser "Brave" works for me. It has built in ad-blocking and I don't get the popup and have played plenty of videos without ads without it it stopping me. Plus it's based on Chrome so you still get to use standard extensions.
Their ability to catch this is actually quite limited, and I haven't had issues on Brave at all yet.
Pi hole is still worth getting set up, as there are a LOT of uses for it despite the YouTube weak spot and apparently the community whitelists being somewhat retarded.
Unfortunately, now yt sees the use of an ad blocker (including ublock origin) and either forces viewers to subscribe ($15 per month - no!) or allow ads. If they don't, yt will block the device's access after 3 videos (per their pop ups).
I haven't seen a workaround for this, but I'll bet someone will come up with something.
revanced
Thank you for this, u/RachelkillsBam!
I have never heard of revanced (or vanced for that matter). Unfortunately, it looks like this in only for android devices, correct?
Are you aware of anything with similar functionality that works for windows laptops?
The browser "Brave" works for me. It has built in ad-blocking and I don't get the popup and have played plenty of videos without ads without it it stopping me. Plus it's based on Chrome so you still get to use standard extensions.
Thank you! I will look into that.
Their ability to catch this is actually quite limited, and I haven't had issues on Brave at all yet.
Pi hole is still worth getting set up, as there are a LOT of uses for it despite the YouTube weak spot and apparently the community whitelists being somewhat retarded.