Very plausible. I also haven’t recently been signing in when watching.

I noticed some thoughts in this thread estimating that this is being rolled out to users logging in for the time being.

People are going to throw a brick at me, but I’m using brave and have never seen this.

Same. A bit of flack around some of the communities here if you use brave though.

Pi-hole doesn’t stop YouTube ads in my experience. I use it. But I layer other things on it like ublock or Brave (please don’t hate for Brave, it just works across mobile and desktop for me).

Edit: pihole is dns blocking and ublock or things like it are element blocking in the browser. They are both good at what they do. Just different about how they do it.