Me : clicks a helpful tutorial of 5 minutes. YT: here have an unskippable ad 5 seconds. Me: annoying but the creators have to make money somehow I guess. YT: and now here's your skippable ad. Me: I just want this to be over with. YT content creator: Hello guys this video is sponsored by Raycons. 10 seconds blabbering on the product, skip skip Me: closes video.

I don't think they did a proper cost-benefit analysis for this one. Feels like the new CEO learned of ad blockers and put down a diktat.

No, they have only been asked politely to go to horny jail. We do not know the compliance rate.

Commenting from voyager app.

Barely sociable produces S tier content while other spooky content creators have run dry of beating the horse and pivoted to ARGs.

Some Mandela effect going on. Maybe due to aged men banter factor

I'm getting the pop-up, which I can click to close and watch videos on my FF + Ublock.

Government departments are slowly ditching windows because everything they need to do can be done on Linux without malware attacks and every application screaming "buy me!" every time you open it.

Also educational institutions (at least in my State) do give basic Ubuntu training. I learned Gimp ,Inkscape and Libre office as part of my curriculum.

And we love free stuff.

I did purge my cache on Ublock, not working for me.

Use Revanced on phone. Works like a charm.

Uninstalled FF and reinstalled, that worked. Interestingly I do not have this issue on my dualboot Ubuntu FF.