I had a feeling this was Youtube fuckery.

Has space bar stopped working for anyone else with Youtube? I keep spamming it and it sometimes doesn’t work.

For things like ReVanced, they have been disabling Youtube per account. So what you are saying may have some weight if they feel like that's the next logical step

Child Sexual Abuse Material

How many people are using Piped, revanced, or the like? I doubt it is the majority. This move is highly likely more greed than anything.

Does Google care about our user experience? The short answer is no. Look at the intrusive ads, how long they are, them suggesting DRM, right wing pipeline, and more.

Look at how they treat their content creators. Demonetization, channel and copyright strikes, etc.

The list goes on. Youtube should and needs to be public. Internet is a utility and needed to survive by everyone. A video hosting service like Youtube is needed as well. Through every perspectice, Google is, ultimately, wrong in doing this.

Is Youtube revanced going to be affected in a similar way?

Have an extension just to automatically redirect to my subscription page the moment i type in the youtube homepage. I haven’t seen the youtube front page in almost a decade and it is so worth it.

How can we get Newpipe? Is it on the app store?

Didn’t Youtube nuke this app? A few months ago I started getting a message that I need to download the official app to watch Youtube videos.