Yep ! No-ads, no-sponsor, no-shit.

You even don't need to self-host, just disable piped proxy, enable local extraction, use HLS and a good VPN.

Sure it's not as anonymous and sometime I need to disable my VPN, but that's only temporarily, until they find a new loophole in youtoube's api.

That's not piped nor invidious backend's fault, just YouTube doing his cat and mouse thing...