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I've long wondered about this regarding alternate frontends for big sites in general, but especially about the youtube frontends like piped and invidious which must require substantial resources to operate (though sometimes they're serving the video data itself directly from google, sometimes they're actually proxying it too)... but, I've never seen any evidence of it. Have you?
In any case, many of the popular instances are running on Microsoft or Oracle clouds, and/or Clownflare, so, from a privacy standpoint it isn't really much different than Google. I use them occasionally in Tor Browser just because they're less likely to be blocking a Tor exit than youtube proper is.
Watching videos over tor is not possible.
sure it is, i do it all the time. sometimes i'll get a too-slow circuit and need to try another, but, it works on the first try more often than not.