Earlier this year Mozilla announced they would investigate YT's algorithm, to find out why it recommends what it does.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techspot.com/amp/news/86788-mozilla-needs-help-figure-out-youtube-recommendation-algorithms.html
Today YT is down worldwide, prompting speculation as to what is going on behind the scenes.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/11/11/21561764/youtube-down-outage-loading-videos
This could be a major code overhaul of some kind to further imit visibility of content Google disapproves of. In the meantime, it's a dead site.
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