Jokes on Google, I used pre-Google YouTube when videos always buffered. Makes no difference to me.

Every time mine breaks, I just clear the adblock cache and everything works again perfectly

revanced still works for me on mobile

Firefox + uBlock origin + sponsorblock. Works great, but maybe I'm just lucky!

Wait until you guys hear what Google has planned for other YT apps like those YT apps that you can cast to like SmartTube or VacuumTube. YouTube is doing A/B testing on encrypting the fucking video streams so that third party apps can't watch any videos. The greed is evolving.

Signed in to YouTube, Orion browser on iOS, ublock origin installed.

Shorts play routinely without fail, but ads are not suppressed. Long form videos initially load black but refreshing right after page load makes the video play. No ads are shown in long form videos.

Hope this helps.

On my devices, with vpn and Adblockers, all I get is "sign in to view" so I haven’t seen anything on YouTube in months.