There are 2 options that I use to watch youtube
1.- Our friend JadedCtrl has a collection of (pretty POSIX) shell scripts to
browse YouTube quickly, efficiently, and without the bloat most command-line
clients require.
Also, shellTube doesn't use the YouTube API at all. This avoids the annoying
red-tapey stuff that goes with it -- IDs, registration, quota.
https://github.com/JadedCtrl/Shelltube
(yeah I pretty much copypaste the description :P her words are better than
mine though )
2.- I also use this GUI client called Kaku http://kaku.rocks/ some videos
some times not work though, but I think it is related to youtube limiting
some videos (a couple months back a few applications like VLC, youtube-dl and
new pipe broke because of changes on youtube)
https://github.com/EragonJ/Kaku
So that is what I mostly use. Any comments and advice would be appreciated.
In virtue of the recent problems with youtube-dl I thought this might help.