personally I use the freetube frontend and don't seem troubled by their ad blocker blocking.
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but also i use protonvpn. it has built in ad blocking but have to pay
I use Mullvad but still see it
you can still block YouTube ads with Ghostery
https://www.ghostery.com/blog/is-youtube-stopping-ad-blockers
Ghostery caused other issues for me
https://protonvpn.com/ worth a try!?
been playing around running tor over it. works well. there is a difference btw paid and free though. but used their free one for years with positive results.
last resort https://pi-hole.net/