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Ad-blocking never stopped working for me. I use a combo of uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and Unhook.

I don’t think they’ve rolled it out to everyone yet.

Currently doesn't seem to affect logged out users. So I just logged out.

One of my PCs never had an account and the ad blocker no longer works. My other PC appears to be logged into my throwaway account and the most I ever saw one message about blocking.

This explains why I haven't seen the popup yet. I'm logged out on FF, logged in on Chrome (I have premium), but do all casual YT viewing in FF.

uMatrix breaks so much across the entire internet that I feel like it has an effect here. But I haven't done any tests to confirm that.

They haven't. I was hit just last week.

I used to use uMatrix before it ceased development, but eventually switched over to only uBlock advanced mode. Do you find it still works fine? What cases do you keep uMatrix around for?

The UI is superior, in my opinion. Better colours; much clearer about which connections are made or attempted; less interaction with typing out rules or looking at such rules.

If I could get the uMatrix "skin" on top of uBlock Origin that would be great.

Yep, and uBO is low resolution compared to uMatrix. I rejoice in being able to decide whether CSS, XHR, scripts, etc should be allowed on each domain. uBO doesn't get that fine grained even in advanced mode

uBO + uMatrix, got the nag and the 3-video warning. Adding "uBlock filters – Annoyances" fixed it for me.

As far as I can tell, they are leaving Silicon Valley IPs to the end of the rollout.

this is untrue. located in the bay area and getting dinged hard on most of my devices

Interesting. Maybe it is Google Fiber in Bay Area, or something more specific like that.

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.

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