[epiecs]

Can you recommend a blocker? I have one (adblock pro), but I cant seem to find where to update the lists and sometimes YT does weird things :)

[gruez]

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...

There's also a new extension that was posted on hn a few weeks that's free and claims to have scriptlets to block youtube ads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085

[dredmorbius]

Bypass the YT website entirely.

You can perform video search through DuckDuckGo, Invidious, or Piped.

The latter two are often blocked themselves, copy the video URL and feed to mpv to play through your preferred video player on the command-line:

<https://mpv.io/>

[dredmorbius]

Clarifying: Invidious/Piped video playback (and often the video webpage itself) may be blocked, even if the search pages work.

Recent mpv / ytdl can almost always gain access. If you are blocked, check for updates to ytdl (which mpv typically uses for video/media downloading).