Electron is yuck, and not ported to my preferred OS. Pipe-viewer (or youtube-viewer if you want to log in to youtube and use your own api key for some reason) is just as feature-complete with a fraction of the dependencies.

As someone who's (re) vanced stopped working today, one thing about using my browser instead was the inability to switch to a different app or lock my screen without pausing.

I fucking hate that shit. Made solely so they could sell it as a "bonus feature" for subscribing to their pay service.

I use qutebrowser, and even with userscripts and DNS blocking I can't for sure reliably block all of google's spyware and fingerprinting (and that's not even mentioning how bloated the default webclient is). Also google looks like it's pushing out server-side ads like twitch does, and using the browser client is playing in their ballpark.

I'm an OpenBSD user, not a Linux user, and Waydroid isn't ported. find /usr/ports -type f -name DESCR -exec grep -li android {} + | awk -F/ '{printf "%s ", $5}' | sed 's/ $//'; echo gives me fdk-aac musikcube opencore-amr adb apktool jadx kf5 py-filebytes clearsans roboto-fonts chiaki libgdx libgdx kdeconnect-kde ntfs-3g selfoss, none of which seem to be an android emulator.

Either way, using a youtube client through an android emulator seems silly, especially when there are native clients like minitube and pipe-viewer that work on any platform.