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[Lunokhod]

install.rdf excerpt:

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        <!-- conkeror -->
        <em:maxVersion>*</em:maxVersion>
        <!-- firefox -->
        <em:maxVersion>*</em:maxVersion>
        <!-- seamonkey -->
        <em:maxVersion>*</em:maxVersion>

This particular addon is clearly designed to function for all eternity. And how am I supposed to know what version it will stop working in except by seeing when it does
I installed the script with guerillascript but have yet to use it long enough to provide any verdict.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Even Mozilla discouraged that practice. I outright forbid it.

[coffeebreak]

how am I supposed to know what version it will stop working in except by seeing when it does :?:

Off-topic:
Of course you can't.
And that is one reason (though not the only one) precisely not to use maxVersion = *.

That * equals an assertion that you knowledgeably expect the extension to remain compatible with the browser forever - with all browser versions into the future without limit.
You have exactly ZERO basis for that assertion.

This particular addon is clearly designed to function for all eternity.

Off-topic:
It was clearly designed to do no such thing.

Version 1.4 was meant to be the end of the road for this extension, becaue its developers (ABP) did not intend to adapt it as a webextension. All those "maxVersion asterisks" on which you base your opinion don't mean the EHH developers thought the extension would never break. Rather, they mean that if EHH breaks, those developers will not fix it.
In this case, those asterisks essentially signify the end of support.

From their blog:

"The plan towards offering Adblock Plus for Firefox as a Web Extension"
2017-04-12 08:23 by Wladimir Palant
[...]
What about extensions like Element Hiding Helper, Customizations and similar?
Sadly, we don’t have the resources to rewrite these extensions. We just released Element Hiding Helper 1.4, and it will most likely remain as the last Element Hiding Helper release.

Lunokhod,
Please read carefully through the article, linked previously. on extension versioning.
Read it until you understand all the reasons given to not do what you did.

[Lunokhod]

So... maxVersion 28 will work in 29 and all future versions until it is deemed that extensions of this era no longer work and are blocked, and it doesn't really mean maxVersion at all, more like maxKnownTestedStableVersion ?
I just went to YouTube with the script in guerillascript and saw the sign in pop up, so that hasn't helped, or I did it wrong, or it doesn't work in guerillascript. The only time tried something similar was a script to enable the April Fool unicorn theme on Stack Exchange and I never got that to work either as it was incompatible, there are a few userjavascript-monkey variants.

[RealityRipple]

https://udn.realityripple.com/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Install_Manifests#strictCompatibility

[Moonraker]

You can get rid of this with the help of "element picker" if you have uBO installed

No the ubo element picker cannot be used as it just leaves a darkened screen and a firm no entry.best way i have found is agree and dismiss the cookies.

[back2themoon]

...best way i have found is agree and dismiss the cookies.

That should retain Google's default privacy settings, which are far from ideal. These can be changed, whether logged in or not. If you stay logged in, I suppose you get a bit more control on these settings and less pop-ups.

[coffeebreak]

There's a recent post in /r/uBlockOrigin that might be helpful to uBO users:

Is There a Better Way of Preventing YouTube Sign-in/Cookie Dialogue Boxes?

[badnick]

No the ubo element picker cannot be used as it just leaves a darkened screen and a firm no entry.best way i have found is agree and dismiss the cookies.

The darkened window is an overlay element. You should mark also this element with the picker.
The only thing you can't solve is the video stopping, you must click "play " again.

[Lunokhod]

I haven't had many problems recently with the js suggested earlier in this thread still installed and these rules created by the element hider in Ad Block Latitude:
youtube.com##.opened
youtube.com###dialog
Those blocked most things, but there was still an empty pop up with a picture but no text that appeared on the youtube home page occasionally, but I could ignore it and click a video behind then it played normally. Today I think I have blocked that with this new rule, I also found I could check an extra box on the element hider to give a more precise blocking rule rather than just "img" (an earlier attempted rule blocked all the video thumbnails once, can't remember what it was):
youtube.com###img[src="https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/pro ... 40x400.png"]

I've never seen the Google box, but I do often use Google search and don't habitually clear cookies etc. so I get a kind of EULA Google request on their search page if I do clean the profile which I scroll down without reading and agree to and then don't see again, so perhaps that gives me a clear pass for that, or perhaps I don't use the bit of YouTube that triggers it.
The reddit link from coffeebreak has screenshots of the pop ups if anyone wanted to see what they were. I get it quite often in a clean profile, but merely deleting all the "youtube" cookies in my normal profile doesn't produce the effect. It's been a couple of days since I saw that empty box so I had to wait to try and block it.