But itโs not free. You pay for it either with money (premium) or your eyeballs (ads). Not to mention the analytics data.
Depending on how you look at it then yes its not free. Though you could use something like Libretube to prevent both ads and any form of analytical data from being collected.
Though other alternatives like revanced manager prevent ads and give premium benefits. Not sure about the analytical instance of it though.
I wish I was able to log in with newpipe. Other than that itโs a great app.
You can use piped instead.
Its built on opensource. A youtube frontend without tracking, ads etc.