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SmartTube is excellent on our NVidia Shield. Not sure what other platforms it works on.

Best overall SmartTube for Android TV and NewPipe with SponsorBlock for Android.

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Freetube, Individious, Piped, CloudTube, PokeTube, Tubo, Yattee are the main ones I know of. If you want be automatically redirected to alternative youtube frontends installed Lib Redirect.

Can someone explain to me why I want the video proxied vs the video coming directly from YT via a front end? I’ve used YouTube Vanced in the past and it was awesome when it worked

Invidious. If you look up invidious instances you can find plenty of them and choose one that’s in your country so it’s nice and fast. Sometimes they take an extra second to load but there are no ads so it’s worth it

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YouTube revanced works super well.

I can only recommend piped sadly, Invidious still make you connect to Google servers and do not proxy the video for you.

I use songtube on android

YouTube vanced, I just had a very sad few years on iOS, boy did I miss YouTube vanced