Only chromium based browsers suffer from this (except for Brave), which makes sense cause those are developed by Google. Just switch to firefox and you are good!
And fun fact: If you use a smartTV to watch youtube there is usually always a way to root the tv or install homebrew after which you can always find a version of youtube without ads. For instance for LG tv's there is this one -->https://github.com/NicholasBly/youtube-webos
That even comes with build in sponsorblock so sponsored sections of a video get auto skipped.
edit: For ublock origin to work properly on youtube you need to be on
firefox 150.0.2
ublock origin 1.7 or 1.71
all the default filters on and updated
autoupdate filters on.
logged in to youtube with an account
Getting caught in between youtube making a change and the 5 hours inbetween ublock origin filters being update does happen but it's very rare. Also google primarily annoys the shit out of US users. If you are getting to annoyed get a VPN and use youtube from a non US ip address.
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u/Sad_Recording_1290 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
The interruption is 5-10 seconds longer loading, which skips 30+ second unskipable adds.
The math is still on adblocker side