Better than any other- Well, there are some selfhosted video sites like PeerTube and others, but respect content are not a real alternative, nor other proprietary streaming sites, like removedute, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc. Front-ends or desktop clients (FreeTube) with the new YT policy will die. What other alternatives then?

For a lot of things I already had changed to alternative sites, the best alternative to YT IMHO is Odysee, music of all kind you can listen here 24/7, or in Bandcamp, for movies there is PlutoTV and the pages of the local public TV for free, news are in the homepage of the prefered newspaper, etc..

I'm not so pessimistic, as the proverb says, where there is a law, there is also a way around it. There are many very capable devs who are screwed by YT and Google as well like us and in the script repositories they have a free hand, which as devs for extensions they do not have. YT is the only problem for adblockers, even the inbuild blocker in Vivaldi works flawles, even cutting off cookie advices and some paywalls, only in YT it fails. But the userscript I use instead in YT work there even better than uBO, at least until now. Extensions are all limited by the imposed norms in the stores, more in the near future, it's this because I trust more in scripts, at least for certain tasks.. As said, we'll see.

We'll see.At the moment I see any ads, nor nags in YT, using userscripts instead of extensions, but anyway I'm going to keep an eye on what's happening in Greasyfork and OpenuserJS regarding YT in the future, this in any case offers many more options than the castrated extensions that will be in the stores to be able to stay there.

Not with the crrent ones, it's easier to difference ads by code than by content in most Vids, eg, divulgations, news, influencers, etc. YT, to not destroy the own business modell, also avoiding that there later also 5 years old vids with outdated ads, must use some kind of dynamic insertion, that means, it can be discovered and skipped by some userscripts, for sure not in the extension stores, but in Greasyfork or OpenuserJS, which are independent from Google influence.

Try to watch the video embedded, simply edit it's URL, using instead of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxx

this URL

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xxxxxxxx

No, not in it's actual form, nor the front-ends can't not longer cutting the ads with their current form. Or they change their script, or you have the alternative to use YT or using another streaming service. But I think that there will be other solution in the future to show the middle finger to YT.

YT has 2 posibilities

• Hosting all videos doble, one with ads and the same vids without for premium user
• Insert also markers which at the end also are exploited by adblockers and userscripts

I think they'll hit their teeth against a rock with this.

Meanwhile a lot of content creators a changing to Odysee

Always was, welcome to capitalism

• https://patents.google.com/patent/US5270800A/en
• https://patents.google.com/patent/US4717343A/en

It should not be missing from the Bookmarks:

• https://themarkup.org/blacklight
• https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en
• https://www.urlvoid.com
• https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

Also usefull

• https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com

There are also some more I use

Yes, in Linux you need 3-4 different apps to do the same as you can do with ShareX

Whack-a-mole