You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain (2020)
old.reddit.com
old.reddit.com
I should be a responsible adult and pay for YouTube Premium, but I also try really hard to limit how much time I spend on it. Also, because of how annoying and intrusive the ads are (I'd say they're more frequent than regular TV commercials), I refuse to fall into their dark pattern to give them money. The harder you push me the more I resist out of spite :)
;)
This is often done in fun ways where the ad is integrated into the content of the video, so it doesn't annoy me too much and can actually be a fun break from the content of the video.
But for the videos where it _does_ annoy me, I use SponsorBlock [0]. It's an browser extension that lets its users mark certain sections of a video as "ad", "sponsor deal", "self-promotion", etc. to effectively build a crowd-sourced database of ad sections in YouTube videos.
The database is shared and used by the extension to skip the marked sections on most videos I've encountered.