mostly true - but youtube has experimented with forcing a "loading state" for ad block users that was the same duration as the ads they would have watched. https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1l7b3c8/strange_lo...

Clearly the original comment is from a mercenary nerd who has not heard of DNS blocking of ads.

If you are using a real computer or can sideload apps.

For some definition of layman, I guess.