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Can you add advertiser-unfriendly content to your video to avoid YouTube forcing ads?

You can turn off ads.

Wow, ugh. TIL, thank you!

You can add advertiser-unfriendly content. You can add Youtube-unfriendly content. But that won't necessarily prevent Youtube from forcing ads.

Or... you could route around Youtube completely. Why do you use a service with which you are unfriendly?