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There's a good reason degoogle communities are growing these days. Your best options for YouTube are either getting something like revanced/greyjay/newpipe and watch videos without logging in, but keep in mind that it doesn't count as views for the content creator, and you can also enable SponsorBlock, which supports them even less, so you could support them through patreon or whatever they use. Or you can just abandon YouTube all together, and use one of the many other alternatives like peertube, odyssey, nebula, rumble, bitchute, or whatever else.
I am on iOS, and I don't believe there is an app like that on my phone, and even then I would not really trust it with my login creds for my main email.
I really need to degoogle my crap.
Those apps don't require login at all. At most, if you want the YouTube algorithm. So for like home screen recommendations. It's fine if you have your suggestions. And those can be exported from Google, and just imported there without ever signing up. I don't know what's available for iOS though.
I hate the idea that watching ads or donating money to "support" creators. Youtube gets their content for free, why shouldn't I?
And it's not just content creators. Nobody shops anymore, they support business. Capitalism has camouflaged consumerism as political /social activism and it makes me sick!
It's still a service, both the creator and Google, provide. And support with something like patreon goes around Google AFAIK. Patreon takes a cut, but that's another story.