Yep, Been noticing this more often since last week. I figured it was a #enshitification related thing.
Here is the deal though. I remove youtube.com results from my searches. I don't care for you tube anything outside of using it on my living room Nvidia shield, and that uses SmartTubeNext.
YouTube doubles down on enshittification. The site will no longer load videos if it detects ublock origin on your browser.
Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/internet/youtube-is-not-down-its-cracking-down-on-ad-blocker-users-3-ways-to-fix-it