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YouTube broke NewPipe today (2022-08-12) but the issue is already solved and just waiting for the v0.23.2 release to be published. So check out NewPipe for mobile ad-free YouTube, but, do it tomorrow.
Peak YouTube was in the late 2000s when you could use a Firefox extension called "YouTube Center" to force videos to fully buffer. Back then there were no embedded ads either (although in modern day you can leverage Firefox + the uBlock Origin extension to remove them).
iOS: uYou+ (requires sideloading: /r/sideloaded)
Development has largely moved on to yt-dlp, which has found ways around the rate limiting.
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