Completely tangential, but Invidious is a great, self-hosted alternative front-end to YouTube. So for example, instead of the YouTube link:
Just copy the "watch?v=..." to an Invidious instance. Two of my favourite public instances as examples:
- https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=HhNLkKw7ClM&feature=youtu.be
- https://yewtu.be/watch?v=HhNLkKw7ClM&feature=youtu.be
This lets you watch/share YouTube videos with zero ads, zero tracking and fast speeds :) The only drawback is you can't comment/like, but it's a fairly small one IMHO. Have a good one!