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YouTube is cracking down on clickbait
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Neither was the previous workaround which IIRC required some JavaScript trickery with the web player.
You wrote "there was a fix" which I assumed you meant one of those user scripts / browser extensions that let users access removed features for a while. Pretty sure this worked with downvotes for a while but not in an official capacity.