I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit or old.reddit, Google Maps to openstreetmap and other stuff. Redirects can be enabled/disabled to ones taste. That's quite neat.
Combined with my private invidious instance so I can subscribe to channels without this data leaving computers I control.
May your own extension succeed too. I guess building it and releasing it are already two successes on their own.
You're probably thinking of libreddit, which indeed shut down when Reddit's API access was shut off. Now most libreddit instances out there either return a 429 error or simply don't exist anymore.
Nitter on the other hand has been doing fine on my end. Instances with heavy traffic, such as nitter.net, do frequently run into rate limiting errors. But if you use relatively more obscure instances, then almost nothing has changed.
They keep working with a workaround, by using guest tokens handed out to the Android application. So, until they change the functioning of the app, it will keep working.
Although not out of the box right now, it requires running some external scripts to grab guest accounts and running a build off a branch or fork. See https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983
Thanks for sharing your setup, might look into that.
In my case, the reason I decided to create the extension is that I didn't want to completely leave YT per se, but rather use the recommendations and browse the homepage and actually watch what I want on an alternative frontend.
While we're on the topic of unfucking youtube, do you know how I can turn shorts crappy player without controls into something that I can rewind? Sound volume controls would be nice too.
If you're watching on desktop, you can change the youtube video's url path from /shorts/video to youtube's usual ?watch=video and have it play in youtube's regular player. You can also just have an extension do this for you, which is what I do.
Combined with my private invidious instance so I can subscribe to channels without this data leaving computers I control.
May your own extension succeed too. I guess building it and releasing it are already two successes on their own.