You can skip or avoid ads on YouTube, so meh.
What really grinds my gears though, is the stupid, fucking algorhythm, which routinely offers me videos I just recently watched, vids in languages that I can't speak, "current" affairs stories that are years old, and channels/vids that I have specifically blocked. I curse YouTube daily, but will bless anyone who has a viable alternative....

I have no issues on Firefox or Brave. I never see ads.

I believe you're thinking of premium lite, or whatever they call it.

Open it via Duckduckgo, the player will show it without any ads or tracking.

WHY DONT WE HAVE A MAINSTREAM ALTERNATIVE YET

I guess there's no reason not to post to other sites as well?

I can afford to pay the protection racket, I just choose not to.

There's also Pipeline for *nix (and possibly Windows, but I didn't bother to check.)

We do, but you probably don't like it (TikTok).

You’re right

I meant idk something like Oddysse (but a website with actual moderation)

By operating youtube at a loss for many years Google acted anticompetitively to kill competition or stop competition arising. Now that they've achieved that they can do what they like. Don't feel bad using ad blockers against this anti-capitalist company.

Final stage of enshittification, now they are allowing more right wing propaganda than normal on the channel

Adblocks allow you to not have to skip the ads physically, the algorithm is something else though. Now it starting to push right wing propaganda if your not logged in, and recently they said they are allowing even more now

That is right thinking. I admire that.

Jokes on you, YouTube, my Chinese phone rolls their ads over yours!

Do you know of PeerTube? It's not mainstream at all either, but it seems more known to me.

It's also in the fediverse, and isn't accused of the same moderation issues (though idk if PeerTube is really better than Odyssee at moderation, I suppose it's just a difference in policy).

Edit: I read a bit about it, and I can see I was wrong about Odyssee being less known than PeerTube. It's strange, I never heard of it, but anyway. Odyssee also includes some crypto bullshit, so yeah...

Love libretube but it just wouldn't play videos consistently. Ended up moving to grayjay

You could put the subtitles for videos in languages you don't speak. What was much more annoying to me was the automatic audio translation (it's still available, but it seems YouTube doesn't select it automatically when you watch a video in another language).

I used enhancer but it seems the dev has stopped updating it for Firefox and only updating it for chrome.

Moved to Tweaks for YouTube and am quite happy with it so far; seems to also have more options.

Tweaks for YouTube – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Tweaks for YouTube for Firefox. Seek, navigate chapters, control volume, speed, and more with mouse and keyboard shortcuts. Adjust player controls, progress bar, subtitles, process audio, show playlist duration, take video snapshot, set initial volume, speed, resolution, and more.

(addons.mozilla.org)

When ads get in the way I simply don't watch the videos. It's not like anybody ever really needs to watch any particular video.