A recent Youtube Web update has added a canvas whenever the seek bar is visible, an HTML5 canvas pops up. This was not asked for and not needed. If you disable canvases for privacy, this will cause a horrific red bad to cover half the screen until you hide the seekbar. Canvases can be used for fingerprinting, which I’m sure Google is doing here.
Use NewPipe
This issue impacts PCs mainly.
Freetube then
Enjoy it while it still works
Run Newpipe on desktop with waydroid. It should work on Linux and WSL
You’re looking for FreeTube.
No, I’m not. FreeTube uses Invidious which is under attack still. Newpipe has its own extractor.