I use the Vinegar extension for Safari which replaces the YouTube player for a s...

		lewisinc on Jan 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021 I use the Vinegar extension for Safari which replaces the YouTube player for a simple HTML5 <video> tag and consequently removes the ads. Don't know if there's alternatives for other browsers, but worth looking into if this is all that's keeping you there.

Firefox with ublock origin extension also removes all ads from youtube.