I was under the assumption that most adblockers were made ineffective in Chrome post Manifest 3.0 rollout. Chrome doesn’t allow extensions using older API manifest 2.0. Adblockers still work in Firefox since it allows the use of older API (for now anyway).
Not sure man, but they work just fine on my Chrome browser, other than the aforementioned popup, but you just hit the X button and the vid will keep playing.
I not only ad block the entire internet, I use Sponsor Block on youtube.
There was a Youtube custom app for the NVidia shield and firetv (I think?) that was really great. I think it was called SmartTubeNext or something like that. It would autoskip sponsor bits, as well as random bullshit bits, like if the youtuber went on a tangent or whatever. It was awesome. I have no idea how they got that to work but it worked great until it stopped working at all.
I would be OK with paying for premium if the standard US price was that of Argentina/India/etc. Im not paying $15 a month to watch meme videos or Now in the 90s. $3 a month? Sure fine.
But not $15.