Try this.
I used on my machine, and it worked. You get about 1 second of each ad and they’re gone. I guess that makes YT think the ad played for you (which it did, just not the whole thing!).
ping
I have that, and that’s always been good in the past. Not so much the past several days.
I’ve been using ublockorigin for months now. Works great to block YT ads. If it stops working be sure to update it.
I just found out that uBlock Origin has shut down operations, and that Google will disable the extension. Bad news for everyone who uses uBO.