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YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
There's a tool that does this. It speeds up the ad so it takes only a couple of seconds. The ad is "watched" but muted the whole time so you don't actually have to deal with it.
Edit: The article isn't great but the tool is sort of the same as what you mentioned. https://9to5google.com/2023/11/25/youtube-ads-speed-up-workaround/