why don’t you just watch youtube through Invidious ( https://invidious.io/ ) there are so many instances available, and you can even watch them in HD by appending ‘ &quality=dash’ to the url.
this. It's 21st century people, we care about usability...
What simplifies in my life if I'm moving away from any ecosystem that tracks me to the OSS way, do I have to compile my own Chromium over the night? "oh, my Linux segfaulted, let's reinstall the OS"
time. Saving time on these operations is worth more than some X-company sniffing my network traffic. Yes, I care about privacy, I always decline the cookie pop-ups, always ask for GDPR contract before handing over my phone no./email to recruiters et. al. I'm doing my best without breaking usability & affecting time spent on these operations.