So very very recently I've been getting an issue where if i click on a Youtube video of a monetized channel, No matter what Adblock extension I use, or even if I use Chromium Brave's built-in adblock, or a Firefox framework with adblock, It loads all the other elements of the Youtube page, except for the video and audio (even the captions load.) I can go forwards and backwards in the progress bar, but the video just doesn't play for 10~30 seconds, depending on the video, but standard for the same video. (My guesses are channel size = how many ads attempt to run, or channel type = the diversity of ads attempt to run)
And then 10~30 seconds later, the youtube video loads as usual.
This is just inconvenient by itself, but what's worrying is that it implies that Youtube has all the power over adblockers now. There is a possible, not-to-distant future where Youtube simply perma-rejects the adblocker and just never loads the video.
For people who experience the same problem as me, please ping my reddit when you find a updated adblock which fixes this. (No im not switching to Linux over this, not considering it at the moment)
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