There was a freetube workaround that worked for me: Set API to invidious Disable fallback Disable the invidious override thing in the player settings section Set the invidious instance to one close to your location (type https:// in the field to get suggestions)
That seems to work for the moment.
I’ve had some success with fmstrat/winapps (if I remember the repo correctly) but that might be overkill for your use case