Please edit the post,
as a few people pointed out already,
it’s not true.

They do ban based on IP,
just switch your VPN connection until you can access it again.

They’re trying to block third party and privacy respecting solutions though,
but that’s been a cat and mouse game for a while now.

Newpipe breaks often. It’s why I switched to Grayjay, it just works.

Though I do prefer Newpipe.

I just used Newpipe (well pipepipe) but not logged in. You sure about that?

Not here, Newpipe and Libretube are working without VPN.

YouTube can blacklist IPs for some period

Yeah, I switch VPN endpoints until it starts working again.

Sometimes if you reload the page a few times it will work.

But yeah it’s been getting worse.

FT seems fine for me