Some solutions:

• Android
  • LibreTube
  • NewPipe
    • NewPipe x SponsorBlock
    • BraveNewPipe
  • Grayjay
• iOS
  • Yattee with this guide
  • (Adding Piped/Invidious website to Homescreen)
• Web
  • Piped
  • Invidious
  • ViewTube
  • (Tubo)
• Desktop
  • FreeTube
  • (Using any of the web solutions as PWAs)
• TV
  • Android TV
    • SmartTubeNext
  • Apple TV
    • Yattee with this guide

I give it a year, tops, before they start serving ads in premium too.

Fuck YouTube

It really isnt getting harder to dodge past the initial recent push. "Go to settings, purge cache, refresh list, refresh youtube" is just as many steps today as it was when this recent push started

It wouldn't shock me if they removed ublock origin from the chrome store

Switched to Freetube and convinced my dad too as well. No ads, no algorithms, no shit yt search that never works. We're chilling.

So they are cracking down on Adblockers and increasing the price of Premium as well.

I wish there was an alt platform that we could use, because even the FBI recommends using an Adblockers (and TBH what sane person would roll without one?)

Probably jinxing myself here, but I have yet to have a single problem. Linux, Firefox, ublock origin.

Are ads really that useful when the users subjected to them hate ads from the start?

Freetube for the win. Built in sponsor block.

μBlock Origin works for me still (Firefox), but I had to remove my custom filter to remove Shorts from the Subscription page - seems like they can detect it if I have any YT-specific rules.

I've got FreeTube set up as a backup in case μBlock does ever fail - but its lack of tabs really make me not want to use it as my primary access yet. I think they could benefit a lot from creating a browser-based UI, kind of like what Plex has.

I’ve just installed Yattee for IOS. It works great. There was a post for this a day ago? Also for other platforms. Fuck YouTube.

Weird. I've been running AdBlock and AdGuard for years and nary an issue with youtube. I just never see ads there.

FWIW it was only when I added a vpn to my mix that I started being made to submit to captchas whenever I do anything like search

Im using Yattee on iOS with no issue. From the damn App Store, don’t think they’re cracking down very well.

I use a whitelist firewall. It is like a lock on my front door. I don't use an adblocker. I manually add only websites I wish to visit. Extorting me for only visiting websites I trust and wish to visit is criminal. I am the reason Ad Blocks are a thing. They are the lazy person's mostly effective whitelist firewall.

All ads are are serving you another website you didn't ask to visit and with unknown bad actors that are not effectively vetted. Ads are like a house party in your home where one of your guests opens a window in your bathroom and let's a dozen random people into your home without your knowledge. The person that let them in sneaks around the hidden guests while trying to prevent you from noticing. It is criminal behavior. This is privateering, aka pirates that have a legal charter from a criminal government.