A proxied front end which works 10/10 , FOSS online and selfhostable, online with encryted server (SHA-384), very fast and lighweight, even more in Light Mode for PC with few resources. The best front end i've seen, nice UI without ads or other crap.
STN Beta on my AndroidTV still seems to work fine adless, though, I usually just cast my phone youtube to that and it'll just play completely adless...
Not sure what’s going to happen with Vivaldi given that the browser is the ad blocker.
I had it pretty bad for several days, having to purge the cache several times but I saw no pop-ups yesterday or the day before that. Hoping that's still the case today
I started using freetube on my computer to play around with and while it's definitely still a work in progress in some senses, it does provide a neat experience.
No ads, nor blockings or nasty popups in YT with the inbuild ad/trackerblocker of Vivaldi, but in FF with uBO and also in Vivaldi if i use uBO instead of the inbuild blocker, not so using Adblock Plus, which is somewhat strange.
The filterlists i use in the Vivaldi adblocker are
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/lists/abp/abp-filters-anti-cv-current.txt
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/easylist/easylist-current.txt
https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster.txt
https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/
Vivaldi trackerblocker lists
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/ddg/tds-v2-current.json
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/easylist/easyprivacy-current.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/FiltersRegistry/master/filters/filter_17_TrackParam/filter.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/master/filters/resource-abuse.txt
Only extensions (related to privacy) i use are JShelter and SiteBleacher (fingerprints/scripts and sitedata, good complements to any adblocker)
Firefox invidious redirect add on is where it’s at
