Anyone who’s been using privacy-respecting frontends for some time will recognise Piped. A YouTube frontend with no ads, integrated SponsorBlock, return dislikes, and a customisable UI.
Piped also allows you to subscribe to as many channels as you want without ever logging into a Google account. You can export your subs list from YouTube and import them to Piped seamlessly.
If you’ve never heard of it, give it a glance at https://piped.video. For more instances, check here.
I have noticed this happening over the past couple of days. This happened on the instance I host, and the Garuda Linux instance. Not sure why, but it is annoying. Hope it gets fixed.
Update: There is an issue open for it on GitHub, and apparently there are some instances listed there that don’t have this issue while they fix it for the rest of the instances. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/2487