If you have to go outside of youtube you modify its behavior, that doesn't really qualify as "you can make it stop". That's like saying you can make someone stop shooting you by wearing a Kevlar vest.

What a silly comparison.

Seems perfectly apt to me. Javascript/CSS are also no solution at all on mobile devices.

One is pixels on a screen and the other is bullets in your torso. Can you explain how that's apt?

But yeah, I do apologize for trying to offer solutions, as they are not perfect.

(Pretty sure uBlock works mobile too, but that's irrelevant)

Sadly not available when using the Apple TV to watch YouTube. If there's a NextDNS / PiHole method that stops YouTube ads, I could probably implement that...

I tried this for games and shorts, but something about their HTML changes enough that they keep reappearing. I absolutely despise shorts

Yeah they tweak the HTML enough that static stylesheet overrides can become outdated real quick. Very annoying. It's been a while since I looked, but there probably is some uBlock Origin filter list that'll handle this and will stay fairly up-to-date.