Used through all of the apps and personally there's little incentive for me not to use Firefox/Fennec. The only issue is that background playing is flaky, not sure it only works on my Poco F7 and not my S23, or if it randomly starts pausing the video when leaving de browser or even if it's a browser or OS power saving settings. But when it works it works flawlessly.

In any case, there needs to be a huge problem to justify installing an android app. I prefer to keep them to a minimum and focus solely on the browser. Browsers are the only OS-vendor-safe option which I can use to bail entirely on Google's Android or iOS and go some place else.

After trying all the alternatives in the end I settled on self hosting https://github.com/Materialious/Materialious

All the YouTube alternative frontends are so privacy focused that they do not even offer video history in your account.

Having video history is a must for me as I might start watching a video in my computer and then continue on my phone.

Also as it is just a web (and includes support for SponsorBlock) it works everywhere, no need to patch apps or install extensions.

I want these things to implement peer to peer caching, so that when 10 people are watching the same video, only one downloads from youtubes own servers.

Then it's just a matter of letting people add their own videos directly to the service and it can become fully independent of YouTube.