Re: API
""I think this move sucks, and is once again burdening users with an ongoing violation of privacy by demanding that they uninstall ad-blockers and other content blocking extensions,""
Youtube-dl still works to download the videos, without ads or tracking. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl, The youtube-dl.org domain is blocked.
"Access denied
Due to a ruling of the Hamburg Regional Court, access to this website is blocked."