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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world
(9to5google.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I get there's a heap of people on here who've somehow never seen these new anti-popup measures before, but they're definitely becoming more prevalent.
I switched to uBlock and purged the caches and it seems to have fixed the issue (for now anyway)
At some point I'll have to find a more permanent solution like switching browsers but right now things are working
Use clients such as LibreTube. It works great and even allows skipping sponsored content.