It made me switch to FreeTube, which has been wonderful.

I feel like YouTube and Google have forgotten the adage:

“The Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it.”

In this case it’s an ad paywall but still appropo.

Even my tech illiterate parents and SO are now using ublock and piped. In your face Google. If you’d left well enough alone they’d still be watching your techno-aids ridden ads.