Quik2007

The solution for YouTube is right in your comment: it used to be the case that only tech savvy people would install AdBlock.
With more ads though, the incentive to install an ad blocker is suddenly there for more, even not so tech savvy people.
YouTube‘s reaction is already visible as they are now trying to block ad blockers: Try to make it more difficult to get an ad blocker at all, so not as tech savvy people won’t get one and continue to watch ads as they used to.

This are only open source patches to the proprietary client.

That would also be my go-to solution, except she wants hundreds of movies (in which case Plex also makes sense, but more for her than for OP).

more likely against humans

came to find this

That’s the ultimate goal, I guess.
GG to you.

I don’t think that not giving Google a list of all domains you’re visiting is just “little bit”, it sounds like a whole lot :)

Interesting, what was the topic of the video? And what did he say?

Don’t know how this is related to FOSS or Linux at all. It is not free of charge/free software and I don’t get why a site called “itsfoss” is even writing about it.