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The solution is to use Firefox or even better librewolf with uBlock. If you already have these, purge the filters cache and then update it back again. If you still have problems with this after doing these steps, there's probably some extension conflicting with it or an extra manual filter you added. Cheers
At some point YouTube kind of block your account with the message instead of the video.
Honestly haven't had that issue at all yet. If that happens, this userscript can be a solution (with something like grease monkey) https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/477725-youtube-iframe-adblocker. Using NoScript to turn off JS should also work. As a last resort you can use a script that redirects YouTube videos to invidious or some other alternative.
Yeah I don't see that as a solution, more as a stop gap for the time being just like Vanced and any other tool that stands/stood between Google and more money.
Why librewolf is better?
It's a privacy oriented fork of Firefox. Removes telemetry, pocket button, sync to cloud, etc.
https://librewolf.net/
Can those settings be disabled in firefox but are not as default?
Sorry for ly aweful English.
They can. Though it's just easier to use librewolf in my opinion. There's a project called arkenfox which makes this easier to config settings manually for Firefox. Take a look into it.
From the description, it seems to all be things I usually disable manually. So yes, at a glance they are just disabled
The only annoying thing libre doesn't turn off automatically is WeRTC which can be turned off in the flags with media.peerconnection.enabled set to false.
whats a pocket button
Pocket is an add on for storing articles to read later. Used to be a separate product, but Mozilla bought them and integrated it into Firefox.
whats a filter cache
Saved data from filters in ublock I think