GM NOstr!

I run a degoogled phone (graphenOS\pixel) and don't want to use YouTube directly. I've ran newpipe but it is the glitchiest program I've ever used in my life tenfold over anything else. Anybody using anything like it or have some kind of miraculous way of making it work properly. In the last month or so it's just got worse and worse. It basically mirrors YouTube. I like being able to watch videos without my browsing history being forever engrained on some government\corporate databank.