You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain
Reminds me of a solvent metaphor for adblockers.<p>Ads on web pages are like stains on a surface.<p>Browsing with ublock origin is like cleaning a surface with <i>alcohol-based product</i>. It worked for a while.<p>Cat-and-mouse game tends to yield ads that bypass these. Like sticky dirt that won't go away with alcohol.<p>Enters uMatrix.
Browsing with uMatrix is like cleaning the surface with a mix of stronger solvents, like <i>acetone</i>.  It's much more effective, but it will more or less ruin the surface/web page in many cases.<p>Tuning uMatrix allows to find a mix that works.
For geeks that are okay with contributing, or just clicking on colored cells in a grid, uMatrix is best.  Like wolves, ads bite the laziest part of the flock, leaving the strongest clear.