Haven't seen any of those pop-ups just yet. I'm using uBlock + Firefox on PC and Android.
To be honest I'd be happy to pay for Premium (especially since they started to roll out the 1080p Premium Bitrate options now) but Google only offers three methods of payment here of which all three aren't options I can't or don't want to use.
The first option is to use a Credit Card (could get one but don't want one), the second is to use Google Play Store gift cards which means going out of my way to regularly get new ones and the third one is PayPal which I can't use anymore because they closed down my account as having violated their TOS by alledgedly opening it up when I was underage which I couldn't have done because they actually wanted to see my ID when I opened up the account to prevent a minor from opening one up.
It's probably a mixture of trying to annoy people out of using blockers + maybe guilt-triping a very small amount of users + scaring very few people out of using blockers.
You can use a debit card anywhere a credit card is accepted. Where I live (and probably in most places), this is just a normal bank card (all of them work as Visa cards), tied to the balance in your bank account. If you have a bank card, look for the Visa logo. If you don't... What year are you from?
You can make a new PayPal account, my old one was also locked for dumb reasons, had no issues creating a new one.
I read about this months ago, but now it started popping up and after I close the pop up, the videos keep working just as fine so what's the point of it? Try to annoy people to not use adblockers?
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I've tried using solutions provided here:
https://gadgetstouse.com/blog/2023/05/15/bypass-ad-blockers-not-allowed-on-youtube/
Yet that still shows up regardless. Whatever the case, YT videos work ad-free and that's what matters.
No issues here on Ublock Origin. You should install some anti-adblock filters.
It would be as simple as the flip of a switch for them to disable viewing of videos when the anti-adblock is triggered, but for the time being at least it seems they've decided to just have it as a pointless nag message.
If they do flip that switch, they're going to lose some percentage of their user base, and they know that, so they're probably hesitant.
Watching YouTube with ads is just not an option for me, I would honestly rather stop using it, at the very least it would reduce my watch time on YouTube by 80%, and I would only be watching the best content from my subscriptions since it just wouldn't be worth sitting through ads for a (probably/possibly) mediocre video. Every time I've had to watch YouTube with ads because Revanced broke on my phone the ads were infuriating. They have gotten so much worse in the years I have been shielded from them. Skippable ads and short 5 second ads, OK, I can live with that, but 3-4 unskippable ads at the beginning of a video just makes me lose interest in watching the video and midroll ads are even worse.
Large amounts of ads hurt creators too, if someone closes your video without watching it because they're being barraged with ads, then (AFAIK) that video's ranking in the algorithm is lowered.
Ads on YouTube are worse than TV ads at this point. They're shorter (usually) but they're way more frequent. Shorter, more frequent breaks are more annoying and they don't even give you time to go take a piss or get a drink. It's especially bad with videos that are only a few minutes long since you could be getting multiple unskippable ads in a row inbetween each one.
Purge all caches > 
Update now (This is for updating the filter lists, not the button to update THE extension)
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