How to watch YouTube ad-free for free?

Enduring unskippable double-roll ads before and during every video completely ruins the YouTube experience. However, not everyone can afford a recurring monthly subscription just to remove ads.

Bypassing logical ad-injection in the video stream

YouTube serves ads integrated directly into the video stream. AdBlock Network halts the ad-loader. To keep the perimeter firewall up to date, the software performs read-only asynchronous requests to multiple independent endpoints, blocking requests from ad-serving domains at the Address layer without interfering with the original video stream.