Brave browser is a great way to watch YT without ads. It quickly became my primary browser for desktop and mobile. It also has a feature to bypass paywalls using Tor that works about 50% of the time.
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This is what I've been doing for the last few days. Typically I use FireFox for my browser as its generally been faster than Brave for me. YouTube started sending messages a week ago to me about disabling my ad blocker, and finally it got to a point where YouTube videos will not play for me on FireFox. The page itself flatly will not load, even the thumbnail pages.
I went through my subscriptions the other day to see who has also transitioned to Rumble, and have started watching content there for those who are on both. I need to ween myself off the YouTube because Google can suck a fat one. I had YT Premium for a while but it got to a point it wasn't worth it. Now at $14 a month, its definitely not worth it. We already have too many subscriptions.
So for now I'm running Brave and YT loads fine. Its a matter of time though.
Oh, and funny enough I think FireFox and my ad blockers don't like the title of this thread - I had to copy the link and paste it into Brave to load it. Below is what I get trying to view this singular thread on FireFox: