be careful with weird workarounds like this because as ublock finds ways to hide itself better you'll only make yourself stand out and be a lot more detectable. and as you throw workaround on workaround they'll eventually start conflicting in weird ways which will break things either subtly or very blatantly (which will result in you installing more weird workarounds to try to fix all this which will only make it worse)

the best fix is really to:

switch to latest firefox
keep ublock origin and it's filterlists updated
do not stack any other blockers (including enhancer for youtube or privacy extensions or whatever)
- the only exception i'd recommend is https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardExtra which is specially designed to not conflict with ad blockers like uBO, but even then don't use it if things are working fine without it
regularly clean up the weird workarounds you installed
- or just don't install them and wait for ubo to do it's thing considering you'll probably forget about this step

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The filter list trick from ublock stopped working already in this case. This "weird work around" is a single script that blocks ads on youtube only via a tampermokey (greasemonkey fork) script. It doesnt register as an adblocker to youtube, so as far as they know, you have "whitelisted" ads.

It may indeed stop working at some point, but so may everything else. All warfare requires iteration, even something as tame as adblocking, so folk will iterate as always.

What i can say is that it worked immediately without issue, where both the ublock refresh trick and quad9s dns over https filtering did not. Its a perfectly reasonable option if the more commonly recommended ones are not viable, as was my case.