OT rant: Youtube appears to be ad-free again. Was: Why is youtube-dl blocked

Wed Nov 8 11:07:46 UTC 2023

On Wed, 2023-11-08 at 21:43 +1100, Owen Thomas wrote:
> I have recently disabled my ad-blocker, and
> I have found no great difference in experience thus far.

In my experiences with e.g. reviews of virtual synthesizers I get no ads
at all, when using a Linux browser e.g. Firefox with an ad-blocker, but
the same videos start with ads and are interrupted by ads when watching
them on an iPad with e.g. Firefox, but without an ad-blocker.  