That's odd

Update:

4.25.19:

Just tested a theory.  The theory is that it may be an effort to block those sites that they don't want to service.

The theory has already been tested with another blog.   The links go dead, and to click on those links, you have to go to a Google resource, such as the Chrome Browser, which then allows the click to go through.

The thing that was happening in the videos was that the list of videos to view was being blocked on a non-Chrome browser.  When I went to Chrome, then the list of videos returned. [ correction: Actually, it was using a bookmark in a non-chrome browser...]

In addition, it was also blocking embedding in a non-Chrome browser.  Embedding returned with the use of a Chrome browser.

Motivations?  Not sure that you can say watching Christian videos was the key.  It could be a coincidence.  But the common thing was that it was google in support of google.  This could include anybody who google doesn't like, which could include Christians.  But that is only a hypothesis at this point.


4.24.19:

All of a sudden, there is a problem using YouTube.  I was using it a lot recently, and this past bit of what you might call "research" focused heavily on Christianity.  Now, there is a limited amount of videos that I can access easily.

Evidently, somebody or something just made it a bit harder to use YouTube.  Just feeds the suspicion.

You might get the idea that they don't want you looking at these videos.