> So personally I've found what i consider to be a safe alternative.
A bit more effort, but downloading the podcast and listening to it via a basic audio player app that does not further enshitify itself daily is even safer.
at some point ima stop being lazy and setup the reverse proxy for my jellyfin server and this will be a smooth "ytaudio {url}" alias that downloads through ytdlp and places it in the proper folder .
For now its a rare enough occurrence where i just keep neglecting it.
Yeah, how many podcasts are Youtube exclusive? I can't imagine there's that many, if any at all.