In the last few weeks I noticed that ads were starting to show briefly. They would quickly get skipped and the video would play.
Then, the video would end and I would have to manually press play to start it. Today, it seems that almost no ads are being skipped.
This is on Chrome version Version 128.0.6613.138 on OS X 11.5.2.
I really hope ABPlus can sort this out because YouTube is intolerable.