really, yt stopped to play sound on the website for me (beeing logged in), there is a banner to "activate sound" but it always disappears unclickable fast, so i searched and found webtube, an app that basically loads their website, but has one feature youtube has not: "sound" *lol
now i wonder how many of these apps really are "third" party apps and not really theirs only masked as third party for getting that gain of trust all the "others" get when it comes to big techs with their very own "public" crime records ...
would be too easy for them to create some small apps, act as if those were 3rd party software but harvest that spyoil (of the 21 century) anyway.
no, what is needed is an app that helps track who benefits from thr apps that annly you most:
the point is NOT buying because of advertising AND let them know it, so they can learn to improve themselves.
they wanted your data? let them have it the way you want them to.
same with any platform. ask the creator of your choice to also publish using patreon and you'll become a member then, getting the content free of ads. better more directly pay who does the actual work, not all the big tech harvesting all the benefit inbetween.
so what maybe is needed here could be a free or even self-hostable platform that also allows payed subscriptions.