YouTube is dreadful with the ads these days, both inside the videos themselves and all over the rest of the page. It reached a point sometime in the past year

YouTube is dreadful with the ads these days, both inside the videos themselves and all over the rest of the page. It reached a point sometime in the past year where I actively avoid going to YouTube (even when just following a link in directly to a video) because of the ad noise. Other sites are quite bad too (and getting worse). I've gone this long without running any ad blockers, but we're almost to the point where I'm losing the battle and can almost rationalize doing it for many sites.