I can't imagine youtube without adblocker. I really don't know if I could handle it.
Same, I just don't/wont stand for ads. I had a TiVo or ReplayTV for most of the early 00s. The TiVo was meh, but the ReplayTV was great because it could usually catch a commercial break on a recorded show and auto skip it. It was glorious. They even got into some lawsuits from (I dunno, people who make commercials or whatever) and had to fight to keep the ability available on the ReplayTV boxes.
Then when streaming became a bigger thing I really liked the lack of ads. Hell even Hulu - when we used to have premium, those stupid little bumpers at the beginning that advertise the show
you just started watching would annoy the shit out of me. DUDE Im already watching The Golden Girls, you dont need to tell me to watch the Golden Girls. Piss off w that.
Adblock is such a simple tool to install in your browser and even is available for shit browsers like Edge. I've got PiHole running on my network and that murders tons of popups and ads on pages. Its such utterly minimal work to remove ads from my internet/TV its laughable to not do it.
The 'worthwhile channels' will usually also forego forced Youtube ads to just have a section where they mention their sponsor of the week, which is also thankfully just skippable by clicking forward a couple times.