Same

SmartTubeNext on FireTV stick, ReVanced on the phone and Firefox/uBlock origin on the PC. I've only seen the news about this elusive change. At this point I'm curious which ad blockers are not working and what their market share is.

I keep seering variations of this post and after the first few I stopped checking youtube to see if my ublock on firefox still does ok.

I think it's just google chrome where ublock doesn't work. My friend uses ungoogled chromium and he hasn't seen it either.

i will print that comment out and glue it to every bus stop in a 50mile radius

Claiming Chtome to not be a browser is needlessly hyperbolic.

What did Brave do?

I have already wondered, why it's still working for me :). Good to know, then it's finally settled, I will stay on Firefox. I hope it will continue to work with adblockers there... (Google has way to much "stake" in Mozilla)

Btw. do you know the technical reason why it's still working with Firefox? Does it have to do with this new anti-adblock-API that was recently introduced in Chrome and Safari?

I imagine it's like most YouTube updates (if not all) that are rolled out partially to different users through different areas.

You underestimate the cost and complexity of video streaming.

I don't have experience with any of those, YouTube is still ad free for me luckily, but how plausible would a completely peer hosted video streaming service be? Like TOR based or something like that where it's the collective of all the users hosting.

I would totally give them some money for it if I watched more yt on my phone, but I rarely ever do that. They desperately need a desktop version.