Sure do love youtube making itself unusable. Their experimental ad blocker will disable your ad block, but after only a few videos it wants you to sign out and back in again to "prove you aren't a bot."

It's now been stuck in an endless loop of demanding I do that, even immediately after logging out and back in.

Tried using it with Firefox, same thing

It's genuinely impressive how hard they're trying to just kill their own site. They've been at it for years, but the enshittification just keeps happening.

It's like Google saw EA consistently ranking as the worst company in America and thought "why can't that be me?"

yep

Currently managing with a workaround of manually switching my actual ad blocker back on, which seems to confuse it and make it just ignore it for a few videos

Definitely less of a pain in the ass than the alternative