GagBase Logo Explore

uBlock Premium Subscription Prompt Meme

A meme screenshot featuring a uBlock Premium subscription promotional page. The top section displays a message: 'We have blocked 8,158 ads for you!' followed by benefits like hiding cookie banners, blocking floating videos, and faster page loads. Below, two pricing tiers are shown: Premium Yearly (€35/year) and Premium Monthly (€3.50/month), each with a 'Complete Purchase' button. Accepted payment methods (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, etc.) and a 60-day money-back guarantee are listed at the bottom. A blurred real person appears in the background, likely as stock imagery. The meme humorously reflects frustration with uBlock, a popular free ad blocker, now promoting a premium subscription, contrasting the original title's implication of betrayal ('I thought we were friends. uBlock is my friend now').
Make

Text content

We have blocked 8,158 ads for you! Focus on what really matters and say goodbye to distractions with AdBlock Premium. Hide annoying cookie consent banners. Block floating videos, email sign-ups and more. Get faster page load speeds. BEST VALUE - SAVE 16%. PREMIUM YEARLY €35/year inclusive of VAT. PREMIUM MONTHLY €3.50/month inclusive of VAT. Complete Purchase (buttons). Accepted Payments: Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Google Pay, American Express. Cancel anytime and use our 60 day money-back guarantee.

Overview

A meme screenshot featuring a uBlock Premium subscription promotional page. The top section displays a message: 'We have blocked 8,158 ads for you!' followed by benefits like hiding cookie banners, blocking floating videos, and faster page loads. Below, two pricing tiers are shown: Premium Yearly (€35/year) and Premium Monthly (€3.50/month), each with a 'Complete Purchase' button. Accepted payment methods (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, etc.) and a 60-day money-back guarantee are listed at the bottom. A blurred real person appears in the background, likely as stock imagery. The meme humorously reflects frustration with uBlock, a popular free ad blocker, now promoting a premium subscription, contrasting the original title's implication of betrayal ('I thought we were friends. uBlock is my friend now').

Origin notes

The image originates from Reddit as a user-created meme. It appears to be a screenshot of the uBlock Premium subscription page, possibly edited minimally to emphasize the promotional content. The original title on Reddit ('I thought we were friends. uBlock is my friend now') suggests the meme is intended to express sarcastic frustration with uBlock offering a paid version after being known for its free ad-blocking service.

Similar memes

A meme featuring two sections of text above a photograph. The top text reads: 'People complaining about "unskippable ads", "triple-ads" and stuff...' followed by 'AdBlock users:'. Below this text is a screenshot of a man with long hair and a beard, wearing a brown sweater, seated in a warmly lit diner. The man has a confused, perplexed expression, and a subtitle at the bottom of the image states: 'What the fuck are you talking about?'. The meme humorously contrasts the frustration of people encountering intrusive ads with the confusion of AdBlock users who avoid such experiences.

AdBlock Users Don't Understand Ad Complaints

A meme featuring two sections…

This is a single panel reaction meme. The top of the image has bold black text that reads 'Me getting ready to reject Youtube Premium for the 8,394th time'. Below the text is a widely recognized still of the character Michael Scott from the US sitcom *The Office*, holding his hand to his face in a classic facepalm gesture, conveying extreme exasperation and exhaustion. The joke is relatable to regular YouTube users, who are constantly bombarded with pop-up prompts urging them to subscribe to YouTube Premium, forcing them to reject the service repeatedly over time.

Rejecting YouTube Premium For The 8000th Time Meme

This is a single panel reacti…

A meme image depicting a real person sitting at a desk in a room with vertical blinds. The individual is wearing large silver headphones, has a laptop open in front of them, and is holding a tablet in their left hand. They are looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. Overlaid white text at the bottom of the image reads: 'Welcome to 2026 where actual piracy sites have less ads than youtube now'. The image uses humor to critique the perceived excessive advertising on YouTube by contrasting it with the stereotypically ad-laden nature of piracy websites, imagining a future where this dynamic is reversed.

Welcome to 2026 where actual piracy sites have less ads than youtube now

A meme image depicting a real…

This meme repurposes a scene from the animated film *Hotel Transylvania* to humorously illustrate the relationship between internet users and ad blockers. The character Jonathan, labeled 'Me:', appears wide-eyed and scared, clinging tightly to Dracula, who is labeled 'AD blocker:'. The joke frames the ad blocker as a protective, comforting figure that shields the user from the annoyance and intrusion of online advertisements, tapping into the common frustration of dealing with unwanted ads while browsing the web.

Me Being Protected by My Ad Blocker Meme

This meme repurposes a scene …

This meme makes a humorous observation about YouTube's dual revenue stream: companies pay YouTube to show advertisements to users, while users pay YouTube (via a YouTube Premium subscription) to not show advertisements, meaning YouTube profits from both sides regardless. The image uses a still of actor Will Ferrell with a thoughtful, confused expression to emphasize how obvious but eyebrow-raising this business model is.

A Cheat Code: YouTube's Ad Business Model

This meme makes a humorous ob…

A meme featuring a real person sitting in front of a laptop, wearing headphones. The text overlay reads 'Welcome to 2026 where actual piracy sites have less ads than youtube now'. The image humorously critiques the perceived increase in advertisements on YouTube by comparing it to piracy websites, suggesting a future scenario where piracy sites are less ad-intrusive.

This is crazy

A meme featuring a real perso…

A meme image using a split visual metaphor to satirize YouTube's 'final boss' challenges. The top section shows a serene grassy cliff with two people (a man and woman) standing relaxed, labeled 'PRIVATE BROWSER USERS:'. Below, a chaotic mass of soldiers in military gear strain to climb or support the cliff, labeled 'ADBLOCKERS'. The humor lies in framing adblockers as the primary obstacle (final boss) for YouTube, with private browser users positioned as an even higher-tier challenge to the platform's ad revenue model.

YouTube's final boss

A meme image using a split vi…

This meme features a photograph of a real young man wearing headphones sitting at a desk with an open laptop, overlaid with text that jokes that by 2026, unregulated piracy websites actually have fewer intrusive advertisements than the mainstream video platform YouTube. The satirical joke highlights the common user frustration that YouTube has become increasingly overloaded with ads, even multiple unskippable ads before short videos, to the point that piracy sites now offer a better ad experience than the official platform.

Welcome to 2026: Piracy Sites Have Fewer Ads Than YouTube

This meme features a photogra…

This is a two-panel reaction meme. The top panel uses a scene from the animated series *Dan Vs.* where the character Dan is pushing a person out of his apartment door, with a standard YouTube playback error message overlaid on the upper half of the panel, reading 'An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: j94zduZMbpZvG5M-) Learn More', implying the error is triggered by the use of an ad blocker. The bottom panel shows Dan looking visibly angry and frustrated, with bold white capitalized text below him that states 'I'M STILL NOT TURNING OFF AD BLOCK'. The joke expresses widespread user frustration with YouTube's anti-ad-blocker policies, showing that many users would prefer to deal with playback failures instead of disabling their ad blockers to watch content.

Screw Off Youtube, I'm Not Turning Off Ad Block

This is a two-panel reaction …

A meme featuring a real person wearing headphones and using a laptop. Overlaid text reads: 'Welcome to 2026 where actual piracy sites have less ads than youtube now'. The image humorously critiques the perceived high number of ads on YouTube by contrasting it with hypothetical piracy sites in 2026 having fewer ads.

Welcome to 2026: Piracy Sites vs YouTube Ads

A meme featuring a real perso…

This is a relatable meme joking about a common frustration for YouTube users: being forced to watch advertisements that cannot be skipped. The top text reads 'YouTube showing me ads that I can't skip', paired with a shocking scene from the Lars von Trier film *The House That Jack Built*, where the main character forces an elderly woman's eyes open to make her look forward. The visual metaphor compares unskippable ads to being forced to watch unwanted content you can't look away from, perfectly capturing the helpless annoyance users feel when encountering unskippable ads.

Every single time... YouTube unskippable ads

This is a relatable meme joki…

This meme uses the well-known GigaChad character, a grayscale photo of a muscular shirtless man, to personify the VLC media player. The orange and white striped traffic cone that serves as VLC's official logo is placed over the GigaChad's face to represent the application. White overlaid text lists three popular, well-regarded features of VLC: 6 Billion Downloads, Extra volume, and No Ads. The joke frames VLC as a superior, high-performance, user-focused media player that outcompetes other ad-ridden, limited-functionality media software options.

VLC Is A W App GigaChad Meme

This meme uses the well-known…