I came across the stickied weekly thread at uBlock Origin’s sub-Reddit. WARNING: It’s a long and complicated read.
The TL;DR takeaway is thus (especially for those who use Firefox):
- Click the uBlock Origin icon on Firefox’s menu bar
- You’ll see a three-gear icon at the bottom right. Click this to open the dashboard.
- Click the “Purge all caches” button at the top.
- Click the “Update now” button at the top.
Note: You may have to do this several times per day since YouTube keeps changing their anti-adblock scripts. However, the diligent work, from all the volunteers at uBlock Origin, have been able to keep pace. I haven’t seen any ads NOR any anti-adblock warnings in the past 48 hours.
I don’t think it will piss off people enough to a point that Google will care. There will be a very small amount of techy people that will always try to circumvent this but the vast majority of people will deactivate AdBlock or buy premium.
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Nearly everyone I know watches YouTube in some kind or another regularly. Most of them on a smart TV or mobile with ads. I think the amount of people watching youtube regularly is vastly higher than the amount of people just watching it when they get sent one video. Espechially since most people use phones to communicate with others and will watch the Videos sent to them with that device and the original YouTube App.