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I, and many others left using YouTube from the site once they banned adblockers. I used to watch an hour a day I'd guess.
I'm technical, so I bothered seeking out alternative clients that can bypass the ads (Freetube, Grayjay, etc), but i still watch less overall. And after speaking to less technical friends and family, they said that the unskippable ads just got too much. So they stopped using it except for essential vids like tutorials.
Too many ads = consumer go byebye now.
Ya fuckin' milked the cow dry, idiots.
Youtube is still 100% usable with uBlock Origin... Even the "lite" version of uBO.
Its always a cat and mouse game. They say they blocked adblockers... but then that gets circumvented. But then they patch it, but that gets circumvented. If they spent a fraction of what they spend trying to stop adblockers and just show less ads... people wouldnt need to resort to adblockers!
Right, but through the entire debacle where Youtube supposedly stopped working with adblockers at all, I had absolutely zero interruptions. Firefox w/uBO (mobile and desktop), Chrome w/uBOL, and even YT Revanced.
Youtube works for me with UBlock Origin on Firefox.