Comment by Mr_Minderbinder
3 months ago
YouTube has gotten so bad that even normal people are complaining about it now. A middle-aged woman who volunteers with me was saying how she did not feel comfortable using YouTube due to the number of inappropriate ads. I ended up giving her links to a few Invidious instances and she loves them even if they are slower and not entirely reliable. She also understood the concept of a front-end without much explaining on my part.
Easy solution: use YT in a web browser with an ad blocker (like uBlock Origin or AdGuard on iOS).