Ask HN: Why are various Google services breaking spacebar scrolling?

It's not just spacebar scrolling. More and more, I can't middle-click on links in Google services. YouTube is probably the most frustrating of these.

I've seen this and hated it. What I really want is the entire old user interface back circa July - search, news, Books, scholar, everything. Gah.

This has made me give up google groups unless I absolutely can't find what I'm looking for and it only seems to be spreading across their products.

You're right. Again, gah. I forgot Groups, because Google "disappeared" it!

I am in youtube but seems something is not right there..I believe this is the cause.