Short term solution:
convince other users to use piped.video or FreeTube
Long term solution:
convince creators to post on PeerTube
the second one will never work as there’s no audience, nor money to gather on peertube
If popular creators start talking about PeerTube, there will eventually be an audience there, which means there will be money too.
Skill issue, just use a different video, no one said it had to be the official, monetized one.
Don’t unmonetized videos still play ads sometimes? I seem to remember that being a really questionable conflict of interest issue a while back (because it would mean it’s technically more profitable for youtube to demonetize your videos than monetize them).
Also if your target doesnt have ublock then maybe they dont deserve to get rickrolled 🤔
I’d rather get Rick rolled than watch an ad tbh