however Youtube app users are in a lurch as watching videos that way can result with ads even part way through a video and it seems wholly random how much you can watch before an ad pop.

Also, Twitch has been waging a war of sorts against uBlock and others with their forced ads on streams you are not subscribed to. For the most part both youtube and twitch are doing their damn best force ads into all content though for the time being twitch does let subscribers to a channel avoid an ad on that channel