Hmm, seems that nobody has yet mentioned Grayjay.

One marketable advantage is that the sources there are deployed as plugins, instead of being precompiled into the app (like newpipe). That mainly means that if a streaming platform breaks the apps, an update is pushed faster, and you don’t have to update the whole app to get that either.

The youtube source has sponsorblock integration, and allows you to login to bypass bot checks if you get fragged too much (not required).

And yes, sources, it’s not only for youtube, but also a couple of other streaming services, togglable, again, as plugins. There is a peertube plugin also, but my concern is that i don’t see a way to change the instance URL in it’s settings, which does seem to matter since there’s login functionality (why bother? for example to avoid defederation walls of the main instance perhaps? i dunno)

There’s also an interesting feature with serverless sync of your playlists and history, should you want that, and not any less interesting integration with a closely related Polycentric project - essentially off-platform comment feed for all videos. But that’s more bells and whistles

the system was made in a way where proprietary was the secure way to get more money… so we we kind of need to stick to older tech until the next open implementation people can fully control is out or we get routers you can’t even do basic settings a 2015 openwrt router just lets you change (read:screwed)… that’s the price. price for freedom… idk not a scalie havent played that game