I use the YouTube TV app. If I see ad breaks that are longer than ~20 seconds, I just back out and try again (if I'm just starting to watch a video) or go to history and resume (if in progress). YouTube can try to show another godawful long ad, but I'll just back out again and again until they stop being stupid. Protip: Number may go bigger, but I'm not changing *this* behaviour. I hope the advertisers demand *meticulous* statistics, and are asking YouTube why so many users balked after 1 second. Actually over the Easter holidays, my tablet was having *horrible* time with YouTube (the Android app is absolute garbage and doesn't like old devices, and by old I mean 5 years) and sometimes ads made the YouTube app go suck mud and the tablet needed to be rebooted (!!!) before it worked again. So I watched YouTube on my laptop instead. With uBlock. Silence. Beautiful silence.