I've used most yt frontends (freetube, invidious, newpipe, etc.) and Grayjay is probably the one that breaks the least for me. Google is constantly trying to break all of them, so they are all on and off, but Grayjay seems to be on top of fixing breakages very quickly. It's not perfect, but it is definitely worth the privacy pros.

Grayjay is awesome - highly recommended!

Louis Rossman is a huge backer of Grayjay, and I would trust that man with my life. He's a huge proponent of right to repair, he regularly stands up for the rights of people regarding fair use, etc.

Grayjay itself is an awesome app, and I do use it, but since they're always playing that cat and mouse game, I find it always needing to update in order to keep the video sites I use functional. Seriously support it if you don't already.

I think the UI of NewPipe is nicer but Grayjay works with various other platforms. Follow the creator, not the platform as they say. It's the only open source Rumble app which is the main reason I use it.

I enjoy grayjay, I went to pay for it today and they doubled the price! Really made me sad, because I can no longer contribute to it. (Went from $10, to $19 wtf) sadly, thats just out of budget now for me and now they get nothing.

I also checked all over their website and nothing about payment.

It's really cool. The amount of control via settings is overwhelming. The official Youtube source plug-in has settings for sponsorblock and dearrow hidden in there, which are excellent mods.

I wouldn't risk trying the paid-content sources. I had Spotify working ad-free without a login I'm the early days, but it requires logging in now, and Spotify are banning accounts that do.

I wish the ui worked good on the TV, because it's better than smarttube