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YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it
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Yeah but if you were a YouTube Premium subscriber surely you'd disable the adblocker on youtube.com so you never get this issue.
Why? So they can serve you ads on top of something you're already paying money for?
But... you do not get ads if you have Premium, that's the point.