Strange, I’ve had a video that crashed newpipe every time but now it seems to play fine. Maybe because it was a “Coming soon” video? Anyways it seems like it works fine now, I also had a bug where leaving the app would crash the app instead of doing background play but I also can’t get it to occur again. I’ll edit my original comment.

Well, thanks for sharing! The more options the better!

For everyone on Android, you can just patch the youtube app using ReVanced, which will remove ads, add sponsorblock, allow you to hide shorts and the “People also watched” sections. It can be pretty tricky to patch if you don’t know what you’re doing so feel free to tell me if you run into any issues.

If you don’t care about the algorithm and your feed, you can get the third-party client NewPipe, it’s FOSS but sometimes crashes while reading some videos It does not seem to crash anymore, so good thing!

Pick one!

As someone in Europe,

• I still have AI in paint (to create images), but I think it’s opt-in
• I don’t have Copilot, but I think it’s integrated to Microsoft Edge (but you can uninstall it)
• I still have onedrive by default, but you can also uninstall it
• I don’t have recall (or maybe I do but it’s disabled, either way I can’t open it)
• Microsoft still pushes you super hard to use an account

So here’s what to expect if you manage to change your region. I have no idea on how to do that however.