Use a different frontend anyways now. There's extensions for Firefox at least that allow you to redirect to anything you want. I personally use freetube, a program that works like YouTube. Another one I can recommend is piped.video, great frontend and works just like YouTube does.
Ultimately, YouTube will probably do what Reddit started doing; charge for access to their API. That would make a lot of these third-party frontends untenable. I love that they're a thing, and I use them myself. But if YouTube is banning people who use adblock, they're likely next.
And that's where you say fuck API and just scrape it all. IIRC something like newpipe on android does not use any API, I also checked piped just now: does not use any of their API.
Use a different frontend anyways now. There's extensions for Firefox at least that allow you to redirect to anything you want. I personally use freetube, a program that works like YouTube. Another one I can recommend is piped.video, great frontend and works just like YouTube does.
Ultimately, YouTube will probably do what Reddit started doing; charge for access to their API. That would make a lot of these third-party frontends untenable. I love that they're a thing, and I use them myself. But if YouTube is banning people who use adblock, they're likely next.
And that's where you say fuck API and just scrape it all. IIRC something like newpipe on android does not use any API, I also checked piped just now: does not use any of their API.