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I always visit #YouTube without preserving cookies from previous visits, because I don't want their tracking or their recommendations based on my browsing history, but this seems to also stop the "you're using an ad-blocker" popup.

Here's how I configure Temporary Containers (medium.com/@stoically/enhance-…) in #Firefox to do that.

The first screenshot is the basic configuration; the second is some optional additional settings I use so I don't have to click quite as many things every time I open a new YouTube tab.

Temporary Containers settings under "Isolation", "Per Domain": For Domain Pattern "*.youtube.com", "Always open in" is "Enabled", meaning to always open this site in a temporary container. In "Mouse Click"/"Left Mouse", I use "Different from Tab Domain & Subdomains" so that clicking links which stay on YouTube stay in the same container, but clicking links to other sites isolates them in separate containers from YouTube.
Temporary Containers settings under "Advanced", "Cookies": I set "wide=1" to get YouTube's "Theater mode" by default. I also set a cookie named "PREF" to some magic value that I copied after clicking some things in a session with fresh cookies. I don't know what it does but it doesn't appear to have anything personally identifying in it.

Enhance your privacy in Firefox with Temporary Containers

Since version 57 of Firefox — Codename Firefox Quantum — it is possible for Add-ons to activate the new Container feature without the need for the user to manually edit the browser configuration…
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