Question. Wouldn't the catch-all solution for YT is to pair the AJAX calls for the video with a "view video key", and that key to be found out after running a deeply obviouscated javascript served with the html of the "view video" page?

They could even bundle some of the key-building-js with the ad being served.

At some point in order to "block the ad" , the ad blocker would have to run or analyze tons of JS code , making the ordeal to difficult to compute.

merde ._.

Weird. Mine works just fine on YouTube.

Vanilla Brave blocks ads and doesn't show the blocker. Ublock & Better YouTube will cause it to trigger. Tampermonkey script prevents the blocker from appearing after disabling/enabling Ublock for a video or two.

Fuck YouTube and Google. They make enough money selling my data.

Edit: Okay I get it guys, Brave bad