The company's team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership.
Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it's plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be implicated.
You can def export your subs. I did it when I set up freetube originally. So it should just be a question of if the other program will import them.