Also do research about changing DNS

Its trial and error .I saw the moon landing in real time

Have just tested it with totally random subjects, such as grapheneos, supertramp, Hollywood undead, interstellar, trump, everything in working order. Tested with mullvad VPN on (exit zwitersland), or off (belgium)
Try reinstall newpipe

I use newpipe or metrolist on my phone,freetube on my PC , never have I seen ads from yt.

You guys pay for that ? No ads here on you tube

You pay each month that amount for music ,😂

Not enough games for linux 🤣

If you start with a xiaomi, then a motorola and finally end with a custom rom grapheneos smartphone, your number of trackers and bloatware will have dropped by more than 97%

Tv garden or iptv ,read the Megathread

Switch to grapheneos NOW

You tube as research platform ?🤔

Keep searching , never ever give up .