I used to use Yattee on my AppleTV awhile back, but it stopped working when all the invidious instances started to have to implement blockers for all the scrappers.

Maybe OP could self-host Invidious and have the app point to it.

If you wanna stay with Apple, I think your best bet would be to at least have a separate non-Apple (unless desktop) device to download videos in advance, for the TV to access that than YouTube.

I suppose, one of these days, they’ll be right.

No way.

Maybe direct download makes money, as they often limit download count and speed to promote paid subscriptions, which a visitor only needs if someone uploaded something they need, so the uploader gets some money back, I guess. And for the others, there’s still ad revenue

Torrent links can still be found on pages full of ads, but still, once you got the file or the magnet link, you don’t need to be on that site anymore.