Playing YouTube Anywhere but YouTube

I don&rsquo;t like YouTube. There&rsquo;s lots of great people creating many amazing videos there, but the platform itself doesn&rsquo;t exist to help me or those creators; it&rsquo;s there to help Google sell ads. So how can I get to the people and their videos, without using the bad parts of the platform? And can I do it in a way that is just as convenient as clicking a link? The answer turns…