If you thought blocking ads on youtube was bad already....

I do not know how this works for other browsers but on firefox you can have ublock origin and also download an extension called "sponsorblock".
On youtube videos along the time bar, the part with the paid promotion will be green, and sponsorblock will skip entirely over that segment. However, that works only if someone reported that segment, which people often do for popular channels so everything is good.

On small channels that no one watches but for some reason they have a sponsor, it may not skip over if no one reported it.

I pay for YouTube premium I don’t have any other paid service, so that is my entertainment. I haven’t seen any regular adds in several years. Some creators advertise products in their videos, but not many. And I just skip through them. To me, it’s worth the roughly $18 a month to avoid the hassle.

New? It's been like this for a long while now.

I've never watched ads on YouTube or had a paid account. No matter what restrictions they put on. I'll will find a work around.

The the only way to stop me is to kill me or remove YouTube.

I'm stubborn - just like them

I've also stopped using Tumblr now because it's chock full of ads almost displacing the actual user content for frequency of appearance.