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I'm so confused on how rollout happens. Is it random? I'm in a first world country (not the USA), using Firefox and Ublock Origin and have never experienced the popups. I use YouTube daily, often watching 10+ videos a day, and have never seen an ad or the popup. I have also never done anything to update my extensions or purge the cache as you mentioned. I've just had 0 issues. On mobile, I use Newpipe (BraveNewPipe, a fork with sponsorblock) and once again, 0 issues.
Oh, they don't block bideos, just videos.
I also use firefox + ublock origin with zero issues on desktop (and on mobile too).
Haha, fixed. It's interesting to see I'm not the only one.
So far the pattern I have seen is users who do a lot of extra filtering with UO are the ones that run into the issues, but us lazy peeps who stick with defaults are sailing clear.
The only custom thing I have done in UO is filter out posts in kbin/lemmy that have certain annoying politicians in the titles. I see them enough on regular news sites articles about their trials or their shitty laws being shit down in the courts.
I'm in this boat as well. I'd just kind of assumed I wasn't getting ads because I never log in to YouTube, but it's sounding like that's not the case.
I have enabled multiple lists that aren't default, have years worth of custom filters, run in medium mode and I have never seen a single warning on YouTube. Maybe none of the stuff I've configured is YouTube related.
Interesting. I definitely wouldn't consider myself a normie (I use Arch and a Custom ROM, btw) but I've never tinkered with Ublock's extra features, so it seems that you're right.