I suspect this will work for any Mint/Debian/Ubuntu variant distribution.
This requires a package called WebApps included with Linux Mint. You can download
the source or deb file
from their releases section, it is contained in the packages.tar.gz file.
Requirements if you do not have it installed are:
gir1.2-xapp-1.0 (>= 1.4)
python3, python3-gi, python3-bs4, python3-configobj, python3-pil, python3-setproctitle, python3-tldextract
xapps-common
dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend
- Open WebApps
- Click + at the bottom
- Name: YouTube
- Address: https://www.youtube.com
- Icon: Select whatever you want.
- Category: Web
- Browser: Firefox
- Customer paramters: n/a
- Navigation bar: yes
- Private/Incognito Window: no
- Click OK button
- Open YouTube web app.
- Install uBlock Origin
- Click uBlock Icon
- Click Settings
- I enable all filters, except regional.
- Click Update now button.
- Close uBlock settings tab.
- Install Sponsor Block
- This will auto-open the settings.
- Set whatever you want.
- Close the tab.
- Close YouTube WebApp
- Click Edit Icon
- Navigation bar: no
- Click OK button
ENJOY!