@VD15 also I didn't have to follow any thread, using Brave with its built-in adblocker and Enhancer for YouTube (which I use mostly for automatic quality selection and volume boost) I've not had problems worse than "You appear to be offline" in place of a video, which a refresh fixes. I'm not even sure which one of them goes around YT's anti-adblock so well and I don't care to find out.
Google in shambles.