try mint, install gnome if you have to

yep!

They’ll have to find a way to shut down all the piped instances too… its a losing battle for them quite honestly as people will always find ways to pirate their signal as people always have found ways around stuff like this. At the same time they take a very loud, very smart minority of their users and turn them into pure haters, for no real benefit to themselves.

greasyfork is what I use

I made a user script that will make a button on each video which jump you to piped, that way you can continue to use YT to manage your subscriptions and see your feed, but you never have to watch to video there

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/477267-youtube-add-watch-on-piped-button-to-each-video