It looks like Google are pushing pretty hard on AdBlockers now. Looks like a pretty aggressive new UI from them.

I’m finding revanced for Android is still working well, but I’ve got no idea when that’ll become less reliable

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    YouTube could probably theoretically embed the ads in the video itself.

    This. I have always wondered why they don’t just do that. If you wanna serve ads so hard, just make them technically indistinguishable from the actual content. (Please don’t.)

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      My assumption is that they don’t want the ad to be fast-forwardable – their own client restricts that – but I’d think that having fast-forwardable ads would be preferable to no ads at all via a given distribution mechanism.

      The ads are per-user and the video can be static, but I’d think that they could put together a piece of software that reasonably-efficiently splices per-user data into an existing video file.

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        I think its because, if you put it in the video itself, you will have old ads in old videos. And the companys wouldnt pay for ads for a product wich isnt made anymore.

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          They can merge it at the time you download it. Would need to to do targeted ads.