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Changing your router DNS to something that blocks ads (or a pihole at home) and you'll never have to watch ads ever again, YouTube or elsewhere
YouTube video ads can't be blocked with just DNS blocking unfortunately, they are served from the same hosts as YouTube videos.
Of course this is possible but this involves more than just pihole. I'm running this with a combo of adaway + mikrotik router with port based NATing.
People downvoting you are like the angrycry meme about the low to high IQ gauge.
This doesn't work for many types of ads
Does a network pihole block YouTube ads?