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I watched the video, but youtube wasn't covered, nor SponsorBlock, so this is not really true.

Sure, Brave does block youtube stuff but they did not advertise Brave for that purpose, but just as an alternative to Chrome

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In Linus's follow up video, he admits it is true and even agrees with Youtube's takedown. He states flat out that he knows other youtubers have been banned for teaching folks how to get around youtube's business model and it was a risk that wasn't worth taking for his company.

Just like how I made the analogy with floatplane, he made a very similar connection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apdZ7xmytiQ

Looks like I was talking about the Part 1 while the one that was taken down is the Part 2

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