Freetube still kind of loses on privacy when using the youtube backend, since invidious is basically dead. Yeah you don't have ads or the youtube client code, but you're still contacting google server...
I've used youtube-dl before, but I didn't realize there were automated tools for that method. Interesting. Of course Google doesn't like any of this and will always fight it. And I don't even necessarily blame them since I'm probably one of maybe three people on earth who do this AND pay for Premium.
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