The YouTube ad block bug may be stopping you viewing on Google Chrome. The only solution I know of at present is to change to a different browser. On Edge, ...
Seems to me YT is just blocking the instances so they have to move their servers constantly. Big or small instances, both get blocked every few days. Thankfully there are enough instances, so you can always hop. But it does require more intervention than Invidious, which doesn’t proxy your requests to Google.
I suspect that’s a growing pain. Same reason it happened on Lemmy, especially right after the reddit API changes.
Seems to me YT is just blocking the instances so they have to move their servers constantly. Big or small instances, both get blocked every few days. Thankfully there are enough instances, so you can always hop. But it does require more intervention than Invidious, which doesn’t proxy your requests to Google.