They have Premium, and the percentage of users that use adblockers on youtube is comparatively diminutive, especially given how much use is through their damn mobile apps, but no, they're going to directly antagonize users and help boost up nascent competitors like Floatplane in a futile attempt to get their ad impressions up by 0.1%
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
As a general reminder I'd also like to say that this is probably part of Google's upcoming (eventually, they keep delaying it) move to make Chrome extensions "more secure" in such a way that would effectively kill adblockers.
If you haven't already, you should really consider looking into moving all of your data to Firefox, given that most other browsers (Edge and Opera, for instance) are all just branches of Chrome (or specifically Chromium, the internal core of the browser) nowadays. There will come a day when uBlock Origin is straight up going to stop working in Chrome, or at least become much less effective, which will dovetail nicely into Youtube's new restrictions, I'm sure.
This is what happens when the same corporation controls the entire pipeline, from browser to content to advertising.
They keep pushing that back over and over, but yeah, now's the time to switch. It's really easy!
Also, here's the original tumblr post that was screenshotted, and the code for your convenience:
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
