I'm asking out of curiosity, are you guys experiencing a surge of gambling ads on youtube videos lately? this past week I've experienced an increased encounter of gambling ads on videos I watch on youtube. it's not that it bothers me, I am just surprised because I don't remember getting this many gambling ads on youtube videos in the past, but this past week, I usually get a gambling ad from 2-3 out of 5 videos I watch(it's just an estimation because of how often I get the ads). I don't know if it is because I recently watched several videos of streamers gambling or it's just a coincidence, I've watched streamers gambling videos in the past but I have never gotten this many gambling ads.
If i'm not mistaken, ever since Youtube uplifted its ban on gambling ads, that's how whenever you are watching any of these kinds of videos (i.e gambling related, investment related or how to make money related videos), you will always come across those ads, of which I think maybe this period you might have been watching more of either of those 3 kinds of videos often for you to have been shown more of gambling ads, which I have also noticed about Facebook recently displaying gambling and the very ads I noticed the most is "Coin master".
Several social apps, namely Facebook, YouTube, twitter and the likes do have a way they monitor what a user is most interested and is searching on the internet, that which you are most interested in and have searched on the internet is what you are likely to start seeing on different ads when you visit any site that allows ad.
So personally, the best way to avoid ads i believe is to stop searching on the internet, and this is mostly not possible for several internet users, but all the same, the ads aren't bad, for it is everywhere, if we don't see the internet ones, we will definitely see the physical ones.