Reminders: yt-dlp[1] allows you to download videos to disk via command line. Lots of options. Also, there's this Google-owned youtube-nocookie.com domain whic

Reminders: yt-dlp[1] allows you to download videos to disk via command line. Lots of options. Also, there's this Google-owned youtube-nocookie.com domain which is lighter than main one. DuckDuckGo offers to show YouTube videos from it under the "Videos" tab (not when video is suggested on the "All" tab) without fully switching browser to video's page on YT site. Also, you can use it to listen to YT audio on iOS Safari, on an locked iPhone. To do so, search the video in DDG, switch to "Videos" tab, play it on duckduckgo.com on the results page (without switching to www.youtube.com). Lock your phone and it will stop playing audio. Tap the screen (don't unlock) and you'll have the usual media player on the lock screen, showing the title and author of YT video. Simply hit the play button and you can switch the screen off. EDIT: reply to a freshly deleted "don't use if you don't pay" comment: I own a BluRay or DVD copy of every single movie or TV series I pirated and liked. I paid studios times more than I would if I never pirated and seen those products in the first place. After Google bought YouTube, other media streaming services started to diminish. Some content started to be only available on YouTube. Until Google was a team player and the "don't be evil" slogan wasn't trashed - I used the service and seen and was annoyed by ads. Then there were more ads. And many, many, many, many other issues with Google. I ditched the account I had with them. Haven't made a single search with their engine in 3+ years I believe. I use yt-dlp to watch YT videos and encourage everyone to do the same if they are annoyed by Google's user-hostile practices. [1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp