Please use newpipe if you are on android. Your watching ads of your favourite small youtuber wont get them paid anyways because of this so make your experience a bit cleaner. Use newpipe.
Also, start looking into peertube. While its still long ways from a competing software, its going strong and the more people join it, the better will be the network effect.
Not sure why this is downvoted but this kind of thing is a good example for why I'm glad things like peertube exist.
Youtube was down for a few hours a couple days ago and thats when I realized that just about every video on the internet is now exclusively hosted on Youtube.
Even visiting the homepage of some sites, they'll have a Youtube "Here's what our product is"-type video that was no longer working.
Dependency hell is used in coding but it can just as easily be used for google/YouTube.
Peertube already is becoming a good floss competitor software that can be selfhosted. You make the rules, you put advertising if you want.
My reasoning for saying use newpipe with this new rule. Earlier the idea was like you are not watching ads and taking money from creators if only that was 50% of revenue. Now they are not getting nothing so why bother watching obnoxious ads.
Also, start looking into peertube. While its still long ways from a competing software, its going strong and the more people join it, the better will be the network effect.