Comment by chneu

Piggy backing.

I can't use YouTube without a handful of extensions. I use waterfox.

Ublock origin. Enhancer for Youtube. Sponsorblock. DeArrow. Privacy Badger.

Enhancer does the heavy lifting while DeArrow unshittifies all the titles/thumbnails. Ublock gets most the ads. Privacy Badger increases load time significantly. Sponsorblock skips those sponsor ads.

I support creators directly through patron or merch. I don't wanna see their ads and there isn't really a way to avoid them in most cases.