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You don't like the fact that they make money by showing you ads? Take your business somewhere else. You're the one who agreed to the terms of service.
At the point where you're using an adblocker I'd say you're capable of researching other means to avoid ads on any platform where you don't want them, paid or free. There's work-arounds for this problem. Multiple of them. Including using another extension to play just the video in a frame by itself where the adblocker still works, using piped or revanced or any of the other services that offer YouTube experiences without ads (floatplane, grayjay etc), or paying for the service.
As it stands the posts I see about solutions get basically no interaction while rage posts like this get thousands of comments and upvotes and bring with them a bunch of random misinformation. I feel like there's just too many of these posts full stop.
YouTube has been profitable for years before they implemented these anti-adblock measures.