I like how different people have different perspectives of the same event.
I use Mozilla Firefox with uBlock Origin.
YouTube videos do not play automatically
when I click on YouTube links from other websites.
Personally, my conspiracy theory is that
somehow the YouTube team twisted Google Chrome team's arms
to force them to make a byzantine system
so that YouTube videos would pretty much always auto play.
I cannot imagine how any self-respecting programmer(TM)
would agree to such nonsense unless they were being paid very handsomely.
Makes sense. Youtube kept blocking me because it detected ad blocking mechanisms. Being stubborn I would simply reload the page and clicked the x button before it had a chance to load up the blocking code and then the video would play fine.
After a while youtube gave up and no longer tries to force me to uninstall the ad blocking mechanisms.
I have a similar experience. Though for me i didn't evade them, i just didn't visit for a ~week. When i eventually tried again, suddenly it wasn't a problem again.
Wondered if i was part of some a/b and they rolled back? no idea. Either way i'll happily drop YT if they try that shit without giving me a sane "no ad" tier lol.
