What do people use to watch Youtube with?

I used to use Firefox with LibRedirect and would rotate through Invidious instances, but I’ve had less luck with that.

If I turn on VPN, YT prompts to log in to watch videos…

every time they patch freetube, yt breaks it a day or two later. can’t watch in yt directly because i have to prove I’m not a robot, and apparently i am since i can’t pass the tests (and tried almost all ivpn locations). only one invidious instance works, but not in freetube.

When Freetube won’t play videos, I open them in vlc and that usually workr. I use the yt-dlp plugin for vlc.

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