Yeah, I'm seeing YT getting one step ahead of the blockers. I used to get a popup from YT that I should disable it, but could close that after 5 seconds. Yesterday however, the warning was actually embedded into the video frame, and I couldn't watch it at all unless I turned off ad-blocker.
I've got the DuckDuckGo browser installed, so I went over to that one - and may have to permanently to watch videos now.
On Chrome? I'm guessing that's the key. As much as I despise Mozila, I still prefer Firefox and YT has never been an issue. Between Ublock and Adblock+ i get a perfectly ad free existence with only one or two exceptions.
I actually have a very different problem with YT. Google is trying desperately to Musk Youtube. The rules for monetization are increasingly ridiculous, so you see people tripping over themselves trying to not say something that'll earn them a strike. The mere utterance of a word regardless of context will now do that, and the bots that search them out don't understand discretion. They just don't want anything that might offend anybody anywhere. It's like Roddenberry's TNG now.
Moreover, probably 2/3 of the videos that pop up now are simply clickbait garbage. The only good thing about them is that the preview pics are almost always so ridiculous they're easy enough to avoid. I spend more time watching YT than anything else, and over the last few months it's really started to suck quite a bit. If they'd simply add a means of plonking channels it'd be fine, but of course they can't do that. They can prevent channels I like from showing up in my feed, but I can't stop channels I hate from showing up everywhere. Fuck yeah, capitalism!!!