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Just use newpipe. It's youtube without the ads. Doesn't have casting support, but it allows you to download the videos. You can also listen/download to the audio of videos, without fetching the video.
Newpipe will probably be blocked as well if youtube is doing this. Honestly not sure why youtube hasn't blocked yt-dlp and others already.
It's not easily block able as it scrapes the YouTube website. They'd have to stop having a website for that to happen.
The problem with scraping is that while it’s difficult/impossible to block completely, it’s pretty easy to keep making changes to your site to disrupt scrapers. The work required by the scraper to adapt to those changes is usually way more than the work you put in to disrupt them.
So if a commercial site wants to make scraping unreliable and impractical, they almost certainly can.
It's also easy for the NewPipe devs to update their app and make it work again. This has been going on for years already.
More for fedi :)
@beatniak @blank_sl8 recently many yt-dlp User Interfaces stopped working, I couldn't download certain videos. So maybe the cat and mouse is about to begin.
this particular cat and mouse has been going on for a long time.
Although I get the impression it's not particularly aggressive.
There was a while there about a year ago where newpipe seemed to break every week and you had to install the next patch version from github. It's not like newpipe had to develop some new workaround or something, just changed class names or something.
I'm not a 100% sure but I think newpipe uses a scraping method instead, so its harder to block since it pretends its a regular user