@dever I noticed the same thing. But I'm sure they are testing things. Because things worked fine when I disabled UBlockOrigin for the page and refreshed.
But that was ten minutes ago.
Now things are working again.
But it is only a matter of time before they drop the hammer. So I'm going to go ahead and get all my casual YouTube watching machines up and running with yt-dlp.exe
Otherwise, I won't be able to fight my insomnia.
ALSO: I tried just watching a single ad
result: FUCK NO