You can manage where mid-rolls are placed, but that requires the uploader to actually care enough to carve out natural pause points and then specify them as manual ad breaks in YouTube studio.
Most just rely on the auto-ad placement, which claims to intelligently place them in natural breakpoints, but in practice is absolutely terrible at it.
Whenever uBlock crashes and gets auto-disabled by Chrome, I'm always impressed by the sheer dearth of quality ads. Gone are the days of soda ads and movie trailers, now YouTube just serves up some TTS portrait video with the camera barely in focus talking about the most mind-numbing scam products imaginable, an Evangelical church talking about how Trump is the second coming of Christ (which feels like a pretty blatant violation of the first commandment, and probably also the second, but hey, I'm an apostate, so what would I know...), or just straight up MLM pitches.
Most just rely on the auto-ad placement, which claims to intelligently place them in natural breakpoints, but in practice is absolutely terrible at it.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6175006
Whenever uBlock crashes and gets auto-disabled by Chrome, I'm always impressed by the sheer dearth of quality ads. Gone are the days of soda ads and movie trailers, now YouTube just serves up some TTS portrait video with the camera barely in focus talking about the most mind-numbing scam products imaginable, an Evangelical church talking about how Trump is the second coming of Christ (which feels like a pretty blatant violation of the first commandment, and probably also the second, but hey, I'm an apostate, so what would I know...), or just straight up MLM pitches.