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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
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Are you logged in? Cause if not you don't get these popups.
I haven't logged out since they started this push and I don't get them with just Firefox/uBlock. I was getting them for a bit and they even blocked me completely at one point. But I just cleared my uBlock cache and updated and it's been working fine.
Yes I am. I even got the pop-ups for a couple days a week ago, but I just closed the pop ups and resumed the videos with no ads
I got those popups while not even being logged in at some points, but just purging the cache on uBlock filters seems to work.