Computer magazine staff writer Michael Crider has a good old rant. Article © PCWorld. (The magazine, not the retail outlet). There are links you may not want to click on and he has a favoured ad-blocker that you don’t have to try if you don’t want to. I use an ad-blocker (not his one) which I find very effective on YouTube. Most of the time. It’d be nice to find what I’m actually looking for without having to scroll past loads of crap that doesn’t interest me, though. The article is quite a long read, but personally I’m in complete agreement with him on how Google have ruined it. YouTube sucks! Almost all the time.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2419276/i-block-every-ad-on-youtube-and-im-not-ashamed.html