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Firefox + ublock origin is the way forward.
However, as a teacher, my school IT system default browser is chrome, and adverts on YT videos when you're trying to teach a lesson can really suck all the momentum and attention from the class.
Chrome allows you to save javascript as a bookmark URL called bookmarklets. I'm not so clued up on java, but I found this code that zips through the adverts super quickly. Someone can probably improve on this;
for future reference, this is javascript, not java. totally different language
Ah thanks, like I said, I don't really know what I'm talking about! Good to know.
And here's the improved version!
Champ, I knew someone here would be able to improve on it!
Your school's IT department should be fired for even downloading Chrome, let alone making it the default browser across the network.
I'm not in the US, it's a local council/regional thing. And most areas here have chromebooks for every student so that's just become the default, I think. But yes, our IT tends to be a good 10-15 years behind the curve anyway. No money for resources either.
Sadly, that is the case for many companies. They do this because they either leverage the Google Chrome enterprise .admx on Windows or because they rely on Google Workspace which has tight integration with the Chrome browser.
That is unfortunately the same in my case, however, I as a SysAdmin had fought tooth and nail to allow users to choose whichever browser they want and because we have a lot of devs/power users our Firefox usage is 25% on Mac and 17% on Windows. The rest I guess are just marketing :)