For anyone looking for up-to-date information on getting YouTube ad blocking to work: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976
All I had to do was manually trigger an update for uBlock Origin's filter lists then restart firefox.
The filter lists update automatically, but a new youtube change got around them and the filter had a fix inside an hour (too short a time for my extension to auto-update it's filter lists).
This is different to other ads, which is a crowdsourced list of filters, and isn't on a small or single individual to keep up. There must be a better way to utilize the crowd to make it work.
Don’t underestimate what open source can and will do just to spite things they despise
If UBO stops working, I'll use newpipe, if that stops working I'll use yt-dlp and if that stops working I'll use whatever else people have come up with, and if nobody has anything that gets rid of the ads I'll just stop watching youtube.
I don't see that happening though. As long as we have computers that still work for us, I doubt google will come up with a way to stop ad blocking entirely. Maybe we'll have youtube re-release groups that manually edit out the ads and re-upload videos from popular channels to P2P sites. Maybe we'll get AI that can download videos and edit out the ads for us. We'll figure something out.
Ahh, but that's just it.
Youtube Premium isn't a service, it's a package.
If I could pay for Youtube by itself I would, but I can't, so I shan't.
I get it on my devices when I travel outside Bay Area and my friends everywhere else are getting the treatment that people are complaining about.
But with just uBlock Origin, haven't seen anything pertaining ads on YouTube on Google Fiber in Bay Area.
If I could get the uMatrix "skin" on top of uBlock Origin that would be great.