NewPipe on Android solves this handily.
I can understand people vouching for using youtube premium or nebula instead, but not this.
Anyway, many, if not most, youtubers have pateron now in case you want to contribute to their incomes without feeding surveillance capitalism.
You have found a way not to pay for something, good for you, but brandishing it as some kind of "perfectly fine solution" is just laughable.
If paying for Google's services acted as an opt-out from their surveillance then I might consider it; but they'd never give users the opportunity to not have Google looking over their shoulder.