Also not certain about details of how it works, but there are open source youtube frontends that manage to do this, while also adblocking: - https://github.com

Also not certain about details of how it works, but there are open source youtube frontends that manage to do this, while also adblocking: - https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped - https://newpipe.net/ https://newpipe.net/ IIRC piped uses a network of proxies which is exposed as a service, so youtube is not even aware of what clients are watching.