Yes. There were a few days where they were using odd hueristics that managed to detect uBlock, but after following instructions to clear my cache and update my

Yes. There were a few days where they were using odd hueristics that managed to detect uBlock, but after following instructions to clear my cache and update my lists, I re-enabled other lists one-by-one, realizing I needed fewer than I had to begin with, and Youtube's worked ad-free since. Some people are coming up with one-liner Javascript functions to fool scripts on the page as well, but I have to question the durability of that approach. It should work until their JS code changes, in theory.