I have, but the process still doesn’t seem rational.

This is generated code. It is accountable to no one, a black box that cannot be fully trusted, and you’ve decided that it’s worthy of being a gateway for network activity on your device. That seems like a recipe for future disaster.

Good on you for searching for a solution rather than embracing the opinion of r/youtube, but I will hold my position that picking a solution like GrayJay would have been a wiser move, with more eyes on the code to spot any hiccups from fetching content in the future and making sure security holes get patched. Your hobby script has no such niceties, and as such, will likely break after one of Youtube’s (frequent) updates, and if you placed a flaw in your system’s armor, it will be only a matter of luck that it’s not used against you in the future.

That is what I mean by rough roads. Feel free to trek through them, but I would be very surprised if this is a viable long term solution.