[hprotagonist]

>I am at a point that I will just refuse to engage with the platform and only play a video by copying the video id into the url:

n.b. that if you have `youtube-dl` and `mpv` built with lua support,

  mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...` 

Just Works. Also handy for red-band trailers.

Further, you can also do things like

  mpv --no-video https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=5qap5aO4i9A  # chilled cow      

which is very nice inside a tmux pane or something.