That really depends on your threat model. The app isn’t monitoring your activity or has imbedded trackers. It pulls content directly from YouTube’s CDN. All they (Google) know is your IP address, but nothing else. For 99.9% of people that’s totally ok.

My favorite anime website is down; good thing FMHY has a bunch of great ones to choose from. Migrating sucks, though.

There’s a flatpak too, but it’s not good.

Really? It’s been working just fine for me.

There are several way, honestly. For Android, there’s NewPipe. The app itself fetches the YouTube data. For PC, there are similar applications that do the same such FreeTube. Those are the solutions I recommend.

If you’re one of those, you can also host your own Invidious and/or Piped instances. But I like NewPipe and FeeTube better.

And that’s when it will get real scary real soon!

Yeah. I totally get what you’re saying.

However, as you pointed out, AI can deal with more information than a human possibly could. I don’t think it would be unrealistic to assume that in the near future it will be possible to track someone cross accounts based on things such as their interests, the way they type, etc. Then it will be a major privacy concern. I can totally see three letter agencies using this technique to identify potential people of interest.