A good ad blocker is even better. It would be awesome if it could also auto-skip in-video ads.

Best part is that ad blockers work all over the world, not just in the few corners where YT designs to let you pay to skip ads.

Try the SponsorBlock addon. Nobody's added anything for this video, but there are a lot of other videos that have their ads in its database.

I'm amazed when people mention getting interstitial ads on YouTube (or I even get confused sometimes when following a link from a website that launched YouTube, but doesn't register my ID). Happy 4+ year YT premium (formerly Google Play Music ) subscriber here.