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Which ones doesn't it remove?

The ones put in by the content creators themselves.

Because that's not YouTube's ad?

Any opportunity to plug SponsorBlock: https://sponsor.ajay.app/

You mean the ones you can easily fast forward through?

It removes all of the YouTube ads. If you don’t like ads embedded in videos, don’t watch videos from creators who take sponsorships.

>If you don’t like ads embedded in videos, don’t watch videos from creators who take sponsorships.

Or just use SponsorBlock?

...for now. Once adoption of YouTube Premium flatlines, they'll introduce "limited ads" and a higher tier YouTube Ultra to remove them.

J, K, and L are keyboard shortcuts for "skip back 10s", "toggle pause", and "skip forward 10s". Left and right arrow keys do the same skipping. On mobile a double tap on either side of the screen again skips forward/back. A double tap with two fingers skips a chapter. Makes hopping around in a video a breeze.