Corporations are starting to get really, really entitled re: websites. It's like they think we're sitting down a computer terminal they own in their physical store. They are asserting the right to say how we can arrange publicly available data in our own computers. Like visiting a website is suddenly forming a foreign embassy in your own computer over which you have no control. That's bunk.
If Google/Youtube wants to do that then they should just put everything behind the W3C approved DRM black box and stop pretending to be an actual website. This use of monetary and legal pressures and IETF subversion by their employees to remove user freedoms from browsers, browser extension repositories, and even protocols (ie, HTTP/3) has gone too far.
I don't see any update yet on Maxime RF's site, but I guess that would be the place to watch for one: https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube. Thankfully, I just installed the extension on my current machine a couple of days ago.
If Google/Youtube wants to do that then they should just put everything behind the W3C approved DRM black box and stop pretending to be an actual website. This use of monetary and legal pressures and IETF subversion by their employees to remove user freedoms from browsers, browser extension repositories, and even protocols (ie, HTTP/3) has gone too far.