For one, even if I wanted to use it, piped never works for me.
Second, on mobile, my alternative of choice doesn’t recognize everyone’s non-yt links, so it removes my choice in the matter.
Third, I have no reason to trust the weird-ass domains I see, and to un-fuck the url takes much more time then just handing out the original YT links and letting people choose for themselves how they view the video.
If that is the case, I wonder if the script is jacked up because as I mentioned in my top level comment, links to sites like piped never seem to work, even though if I navigate to the video manually it’s fine.