Did you try switching your VPN to a different country? Mine nearly always fails when my VPN points at my home country. But it nearly always works when I connect to another.

Because it’s a sign to me that the content creator is willing to take shortcuts and be lazy. In which case I take the shortcut to being too lazy to watch their “content”.

Which is the second most scary thing AI can do.

The first is realistic portrayal of faked current events.

Biggest problem with non-working “holidays” is that they only apply to certain more privileged people who also get paid to not work. Everyone else either sits at home unpaid for the day, or has to work (most often without any additional compensation) to support those who do get the paid day off.

1. I watched YouTube ads.

2. When they got to be too much I stopped watching.

3. Then I added uBlock Origin and NoScript (even on YouTube I block some scripts) and went back to watching.

4. When bazillions of content creators started over-creating content just for revenue, and not to provide value, I started watching less and less.

5. Now content creators are producing even more garbage via AI, and now I only watch a very few real-world content creators and videos more than 2 years old. Everything else I watch on other sites. If a content creator also posts to other sites, I watch them there and not on YT.

When YouTube does anything weird I switch my VPN to a neighboring country that’s less popular. Suddenly YouTube loads everything without problem.