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Adblockers help prevent data collection, which I’m sure YT does have a problem with.

• jkaplowitz 3y ago
  Do they prevent relevant data collection by YouTube for people who are logged into YouTube Premium accounts? I doubt it. This is still a first-party data collection context, not a third-party one, and YouTube controls both (enough of) the client and the server. Anyway, all we have to go here is Google's public statement and their public actions. Nobody who actually knows YouTube's internal thoughts on this topic would be discussing them here. And so far their public statement as quoted in the article lists signing up for YouTube Premium as the acceptable alternative to turning off the ad blocker. (Disclosure: I did work for Google in the past, but never for YouTube, and not in over 8 years. Of course I don't know their internal thoughts on this topic, and I'm only speaking for myself here.)