Yep. The bass-tards.

Use PipePipe or Invidious.

No, not always smoothly. PipePipe is a lot smoother than Invidious, but doesn't work on my desktop. I just hate using YouTube, so I'll put up with some inconvenience! This instance is working well (today):

Invidious - search

An alternative front-end to YouTube

They did it months ago, then put it back, then took it away again