This is explained on this support answer

It’s a thing on Revanced YT even if spoofing an old version.

Apparently applies to the web version?

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    1 year ago

    There’s not really much evidence that targeted ads work any better than random ads. Plus they already have a point of data to serve ads: what video the user is watching.