Can't wait until Google flips them on globally for all users 
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Piped and Invidious for when that happens. I will never surrender
My invidious has stopped working today (in the UK).. all the videos fail to load and the fixes (like turning on video proxy) do not fix it.. I've noticed a few piped and invidious instances having similar issues.
Probably related to the issues I began having yesterday with Revanced- suddenly, videos started to infinitely buffer after around 1 minute of playing. I ended up having to update + reinstall Revanced entirely. Looking at the Revanced subreddit it seems more and more users have started getting affected by the same issue these past few weeks.
Google's definitely doing something.
I also did this, this morning and it seemed to fix it. If it becomes impossible to block ads I guess we all just stop watching YouTube...?
google overestimates how much I like YouTube and how much I hate ads and google
Unfortunately, they do not care. They don't want people watching youtube, they want people watching ads.
Good to know this isn't just me, I updated and reinstalled without resorting to forums, and it solved the issue for me too.
I am not a piped user so I am not 100% updated but as far as I know, Google is blocking the various piped instances by their IP
It happens to me sometimes but you can hop instances and usually it ends up working