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1 year agoYouTube ads are just other YouTube videos that you can watch willingly if you know their ID. The mechanism of serving them might therefore not involve the client connecting to any domains other than www.youtube.com
, and it probably doesn’t or it would be very easy to block them otherwise.
Use uBlock custom filters instead of new extensions for best performance.
Also, it is easy to reload the page in Reader mode, without JS, or block the overlay.