There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You've saved people from 4,176 segments ( 2d 2h 15.4 minutes of their lives )
You've skipped 9,064 segments ( 3d 1h 27.2 minutes )

Yeah... no... 3 days of my life back? That I didn't have to waste watching an AD? Full agreement with you there... Fuck that noise. I'm going to keeping using the hell out of it.

It's a terrible argument too... Does it make sense to yell at someone using a DVR that skips forward? My Plex server does this automatically.