I haven't observed any problems with uBlock Origin on Firefox.

Missing piece in the numbers here is how many people were uninstalling adguard to switch to uBlock? Using one extension's install stats to make conclusions about all adblocking extensions seems a bit much.

I've been using uBlock Origin in Firefox on both Linux and Android this whole time. If Lemmy hadn't lit up about it, I wouldn't have noticed. I never saw one ad or that "dur hur no ad block" message.

And I let Youtube ads run for YEARS. Ads basically everywhere on the net have become intolerable in their content and quantity, so I said enough. And it is 100% Adsense's fault.

uBlock seems to have won the arms race, since whenever I had problems it worked again after updating it.

So far, no ads on YouTube. The defenses hold!

Keep using adblockers and don't surrender your digital freedom to big tech corporations. Also check out private frontends for YouTube (and other plattforms: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/

Youtube is fine for me, never stopped working here on firefox with ublock origin, but twitch though, yesterday I couldn't watch any stream for 5 seconds without a error that only went away after turning everything off and letting the ads flow.

I wonder if they saw a large enough down tick is user traffic to realize that endlessly badgering people with 5 ads to watch a 30 second clip is driving away their user base.

I know my YouTube consumption has decreased by a factor of 10. I used to use it for almost all of my streaming entertainment. In conjunction with other streaming services’ password sharing crackdown, I am spending more time reading and going outside than I have in the past decade. That’s a trend these providers don’t want catching on.

Adblocker will die when there's no more ads to see.

I got hit hard by the cpu bombing that youtube did to punish adblocking, to the point i had to stop watching videos while playing games.

cause having a video running while playing a game would bomb my performance so hard that I'd go from 150+fps to 15fps.

I think, ultimately, Googles war against adblockers Streisand'd the fuck out of adblockers and probably got more people ultimately to use them, either out of spite of googles bullshit or because they saw the arguments and realized the web was far better with a digital condom.

Still using Firefox + ublock origin + sponsorblock. I've not seen an ad on YouTube for years.

On my phone I'm using Tubular, a fork of NewPipe with Sponsorblock integration.

Youtube still works fine with uBlock Origin. I've had the adblock detection pop up a few times, but updating the filters fixed it every time. I will never uninstall my ad blocker. The web is not usable without it.

Never saw ads against adblock. I use firefox with ublock, and alterbative sponsorblock clients for youtube on android :)

YouTube slowing itself down to unusable made me write a local extension that takes any YouTube watch link and opens it in yewtu.be my life has been better since. Fuck you tube's stance. You're gonna make the experience terrible I'll watch your content via another client.

Not only did I not uninstall my adblocker, I also switched to the Invidious front-end to avoid any anti-adblocking scripts, and I can also download videos now, and get no trackers at all.

I was someone who always knew about ad blockers, but just wasn’t bothered enough to use them.

I used YouTube SO much that it was worth it to me to have premium.

After all the bitching and moaning from YouTube last year, I un subbed, downloaded free tube instead, and also finally added an ad blocker to both my mobile and desktop browser.

I imagine I’m not the only one with that story haha.

Did they survive? In my case, they got stronger.

In principle, I actually support the idea of people running sites being able to support themselves financially through advertising. I just don’t like when the ads go too far into obnoxious territory. So before all this, I used Adblock Plus with its "acceptable ads policy" to let through unobtrusive banner ads but block prerolls, large graphics, and interstitial ads.

Unfortunately, ABP didn’t adapt to YouTube’s changes quickly enough, so I switched to uBlock Origin. Now I don’t even see unobtrusive ads. Google shot themselves in the foot over this one.

I'm watching YouTube right now with uBlock Origin working without issue.

Then, there’s this: https://restoreprivacy.com/state-spyware-extensively-using-ads-as-distribution-channel/

For this reason alone, fuck any company banning ad blockers.

Honestly, whenever I want to watch YT, I just open YT with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock in a Private Tab. Haven't really noticed anything, and honestly it helps me to stop watching videos.

Well I'm not seeing any ads, so I'd say yes

I never even noticed their 'battle' using YouTube revanced. (only youtube client I use)

Didn't uninstall any of my AdBlock layers, but YouTube didn't survive.

Even though I actually never saw the famous popup, the whole thing made me take steps after months of feeling that the recommendations sucked and I was often wasting lots of time watching stuff I didn't even like.

Now I'm actually getting back into reading and audiobooks, and using invidious for the occasional watch.

I can't remember the last time I saw an ad on any of my devices, so I'd say "lol"