Didn’t LTT just release a video covering this exact topic?

Don’t use the youtube website. On any browser. Use freetube instead, if your situation and use case allows it. No Google bullshit required. Loads fast, no ads, no tracking. Fully self contained.

100% this. The ublock team are doing a fantastic job but Google are tweaking their script 2 or 3 times a day, causing the ublock team to constantly play catch up. As a user, all this has done is made me move to a more customisable front end, freetube. It’s legitimately faster to browse and load videos than the main YouTube Web page, comes with sponsorblock built in, and allows easier profile switching, all with no ads or bullshit.

I’d have never searched for or known about it if YouTube hadn’t gone batshit crazy with the ad block blocker.

Fuck em.

Cheap and low power consumption is king. If there’s something you know you’ll need like a sata pcie card or whatever, then make sure the mobo has room for it.