It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:
- It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
- It has ads right out of the box.
- It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
- They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
Use uBlock origin and sponsorblock with Firefox or a fork for a perfect YouTube experience.
I’m aware but keeping updated to keep it working is a pain in the ass. The main issue being having to close all my tabs to restart the browser and keeping track of all the various shit I have open. Not worth the effort just for YouTube.
With using a second browser I can just update it and restart in 1 minute if there’s an issue. Side bonus of it clearing my cookies and it unfucks my algorithm for a while. Not saying I HAVE to use brave for this. Just it’s the one I landed on because there was nothing extra to manage.