It’s too bad they don’t realize that intentionally annoying me is not a good way to convince me to spend money on their product.
uBlock has still been working for me. Occasionally I’ll have a pre-video ad sneak through, but 90% of the time it works.
I just watched an hour-long documentary, interrupted every 2-3 minutes by a repeat of a state government adv telling me that they’d changed the bail laws.
Either my state government paid for that, in chich case I’ve been ripped off by an evil mercenary media company, or else an evil mercenary media company is using that ad to drive people to subscription.
Either way, it’s an evil mercenary media company, and they get no sympathy from me.
this is pretty much what is happening to me just lately. and often the first time I click on something I get an error saying the content is not available and try again later, but reloading it works.
So possibly something that YouTube is rolling out in waves rather than all at once. I can live with it, it’s certainly better than ads, but if it becomes a new standard of YouTube behavior, I expect those smarter than me will be coming back with tweaks to defeat it.