Viper-Browser VS streamlink

'Googlefu' is slightly problematic. I found 'Viper Browser' listed in an article from Last year which looked super - but when you go look at the github you see it's 2 years in it's grave already.

Unfortunately, KDE instead of adding things like adblocking or private mode to Konqueror, instead seems to rewrite it from scratch for every major release (Rekonq, Falkon and now Viper which is slated to become the system browser in KDE6)

Sure, there are: K-Meleon on Goanna, Otter Browser, Falkon Browser or Viper Browser.

It doesn't look like Streamlink is immune to the challenges of Twitch ads: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/4949

i can't quite tell what you're asking for but check out https://streamlink.github.io/

Take a look at this: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/

Streamlink != Steam Link

alternatively, you can use streamlink to stream the video and let it open vlc for you.

A summary of my use case: I like to watch Twitch streams via streamlink. For that purpose I use wtwitch, a terminal program which allows me to maintain a list of my favourite channels without a Twitch account, check which of those streamers are currently online and run a command to open their streams via streamlink.

Streamlink has very detailed and newbie friendly documentation. Here's the plugin you'd need to scrape Kick links.

I believe yt-dlp works and merges everything already for you. I use streamlink https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink for most of twitch stuff and all you have to do is pass in the vod url

Next you will need streamlink, again in the same powershell instance type.