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If you're on Android, try out https://vancedapp.com/ - it's an "Advanced" YouTube player, but they removed the "Ad"s (get it?)
Also, there's an option to enable SponsorBlock, which can automatically skip over ads, introductions, etc. that are part of the original video.
Vanced and Firefox's addons are two of the main things keeping me off of iOS.
I've been using and loving this: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
I find the EFF Privacy Badger to be a nice compromise: https://privacybadger.org/
There is also alternative youtube front ends that don't have ads, notably Invidious[0], and work in cases where the browser doesn't have or can't support extensions such as ad blockers. For anyone interested I run my own instance that is retro tech themed[1], and there is a public instance list with more instances[2].
[0] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious