Out of town and staying with family, which means I'm away from my custom router and it's blocking/protection. Using Edge with Ublock Origin and custom filters. No issues for me.
YouTube continues to become more obnoxious with ads not even just these playback ones but in the sheer number of ads in it's search results as well. Instead of adapting they just become a shitter and shittier experience necessitating the further need for ad block in the first fucking place. I hope they enshitify it to the point the website becomes worthless and actual alternatives pop up.