I'm sure we all went through a phase of like "What did they axe?" I thought it was my VPN.

living in a country where internet access to certain sites is either restricted or blocked from the site, you always wonder on any outage, which side caused it this time.

in this case i thought maybe i had a bad IP that youtube didn't like and desperately tried reconnecting my router hoping to get assigned a different IP.

They seem to have figured out how to disrupt Brave by running a script that eventually hangs the tab

yes at first I assumed this was part of the tit for tat ublock war