also don't use brave or vanilla Firefox

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/40391590

Blåhaj Lemmy - Choose Your Interface

Don’t use brave.
Counterpoint, some websites behave better on chromium so using brave as last resort is not as bad.
Use literally any other chrome based browser.

I haven’t found one that blocks YouTube ads as well as brave does on iPhone.

Yes, I do have uBlock

Vivaldi seems to block adds well to iOS too.

Really the best I’ve found is 1blocker for Safari, but I got that when the lifetime version was a only few dollars. (Imagine subscribing to an ad-blocker! - but than again, how many people donate to ublock?).

Ublock Origin Lite is available for safari and blocks YouTube ads perfectly fine.