I got a frequent notification recently that the ad blocker is against the Youtube ToS thus preventing me from watching videos.
Which adblocker are you using? I am asking because I haven't seen that notification yet and I am naturally using adblocker because without them its bascially impossible to watch YouTube anymore.
I use the AdblockPlus addon on the Chrome browser, and recently, a warning popup appears before every video view. I have the Stands addon installed on another computer but have not tested if the warning appears there as well.
Since I read recently that YouTube plans do disable all addblockers and that they won't work for that purpose anymore, I will probably give this FreeTube a chance. My main problem with it (and the reason i haven't tried it so far) is that you have to install an app in order to use it, instead just having a browser version.
You can check out the
Ividius project. It is an open-source alternative front-end to YouTube. There are many instances available for free use, both on the clearnet and on the Tor network:
https://docs.invidious.io/instances/ Although, For those who want full privacy, I suggest the self-hosted version.