If you do the audio captcha, you usually nail it the first time and it lets you in right away.
Check archive.ph for the articles.
On Brave, you can add dns block lists. One of the lists available through the GUI is for blocking scripts in news sites.
Instead of google, sometimes I use Yandex since it has more raw shitty results. Which, ironically, can be more useful than the AI-written textual diarrhoea on ever SEO-addicted site.
I use Brave + Ghostery + Privacy Badger and don't get that popup for YouTube.
That said, I miss the internet of the early 2000s.