Thanks

Thanks for the detailed reply. So does the underlying YouTube app never receive app store updates? I’m surprised it went years without some sort of connection issue.

Significantly easier? Newpipe is simply installed from fdroid. I’ve only looked for a few minutes but it looks like revanced “patches” YouTube. Does that mean it doesn’t create its own app but overtakes another? How does that interact when the app underneath gets a play store update?

I tried running both invidious and piped in docker behind an existing nginx. Invidious was so easy, 1 and done. My main issue with piped was piped running its own nginx, and it just returning a unconfigured landing page. After battling it I got the front end working by bypassing their nginx but it wouldn’t talk to my piped back end, as soon as I pointed the front end at a public backend the option to point to mine disappeared. I’ll try this installer and see how it goes.