No, author of this article, paying for premium is not a workaround.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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Is this a sponsored article? Bc buying yt premium doesn't seem like a workaround to me.
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Damn sure was clickbaity. No ads? Buy YT Premium they say.
Whoopee. Saved you a click.
I stopped using ABP years ago and switched to uBlock Origin. That and some *Monkey scripts.
Bah, This is just an add for a YouTube premium subscription
The internet hasn't noticed yet
Says article on the internet shared with others on the internet and linked to from many internet places.
Article titles are fucking garbage. At least it didn't pul the "Here's why" bullshit.
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FreeTube with an ipv6 rotator and Invidious will make sure you never have to deal with this.
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That said though, there is one ad blocker that still works. Two words: uBlock Origin. Yes, I know that Google has blocked it from its Chrome Extension store, but there is still a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome that our how-to extraordinaire Kaycee has detailed.
Or..... You could just ditch Chrome altogether!
I don't know why people are so fixated on using Chrome. It's a crippled browser made by an evil company that is actively looking to screw the user at every turn.
I switched to Firefox when Google essentially killed uBlock Origin on their browser. At first I ran into some problems with some sites not rendering correctly. But it seems like that's become much less of an issue with later updates. And the best thing is that there are some phenomenal extensions for blocking ads - like a fully-fledged uBlock Origin to name just one. I don't even see sponsor promotions in YT videos now.
And if you don't want to deal with Mozilla directly you can use Waterfox instead.
All this dancing around and jumping through hoops to get uBlock Origin working on Chrome is kind of absurd. Just ditch Chrome (and all Blink-based browsers) altogether where you can (I get that corporate environments are often off the table for this).
Collectively we should be sending a message to Google whenever we can that we are done with their browser bullshit.
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I hate when they say paying the premium is a "solution". It's worse. That's why nobody is doing it.
I actually have a Premium subscription, but it's kinda half assed journalism to suggest that as a solution.
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"If your adblock doesn't work, a workaround is to pay for YouTube Premium"
AW NO I HADN'T FUCKING THOUGHT OF THAT
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"Adblock Plus" Me: WHAT YEAR IS THIS?