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This is when you're supposed to use the FOSS alternatives
https://invidious.io/
https://newpipe.net/
https://freetubeapp.io/
Me personally because I don't have a Google account nor saw a real gain in getting one (for what I do in my day to day), I just switched to these for subscriptions.
arent thpse just frontends?
Yep, without the need of a Google acc. No shitty ads, more functionality, and they're typically more customizable :p
+to that. However I haven't found proper alternative yet.
Point one hits home. It's nice that I can look through my feed but I also want to find new stuff and piped is not giving me that. I still use it in case my yt account gets banned lol
You should also start looking into libredirect, an extension to route your youtube traffic to invidious instances
I'll look into that ^^ thanks friendo