Czecho-Slovak QWERTZ is fine, but it annoys me that you have to guess whether a keyboard is set to QWERTY or QWERTZ. Z and Y are the only characters that are switched. I gave up as I frequently switch to English QWERTY; now I just use QWERTY for both languages.

I have it turned off. But maybe that option is not available outside of EU? I don’t know.

Well, you can create an account from EU, although mine got locked after creating just one blog post. And the support does not seem to respond, so I moved to a different platform.

You could try AdAway if you have an Android tablet, although I’m not entirely sure whether this app blocks Youtube ads too, as I don’t use the official YT app.

You probably have to log in. If you are in anonymous mode, the app defaults to showing lemmy.ml (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong)

Peertube is a good federated alternative to Youtube, it also connects to the Fediverse and there is a central search engine called Sepia Search, which makes it easier to find content on the different instances.