I think someone will come up a solution like the tapermonkey thing, just have to give it time. Also could be they will revert back to the old way after doing some work hopefully.
I guess if it would be a smaller/more niche site, no one would be looking in, but RB is the archive for CB content (and wants to make money out of it) - there will be a solution. Routing for the solution kjhl posted on page 19.
Very pessimistic, you are on the best forum with the most competent people who can solve this problem, so relax, get some air, go see the Sun or the Moon for a bit, and when you come back everything will be solved.
then you are somehow a lucky guy because it doesn't work for me. i use firefox and downloadhelper for years but since their "update" it's not working anymore
for yt-dlp I think you need to set the right user-agent of your browser and referer. For me this works:
yt-dlp.exe --add-header "User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0" --referer "