I really wish this would abolished. Nobody can give me a really good reason why we do it. Just that it has always been done.

I agree. Was using proton before and will continue to use it as it’s a solid product worth paying for

Can you please share your YouTube blocking techniques for pihole. In my experience YouTube injects their ads as part of the stream, which I haven’t had luck blocking with DNS ad blocking

Check out freetubeapp.io on desktop and newpipe on Android for YouTube. You are right that there is no competitors, but at least this way they don’t get any ad revenue from you.