It’s still a service, both the creator and Google, provide. And support with something like patreon goes around Google AFAIK. Patreon takes a cut, but that’s another story.
Those apps don’t require login at all. At most, if you want the YouTube algorithm. So for like home screen recommendations. It’s fine if you have your suggestions. And those can be exported from Google, and just imported there without ever signing up. I don’t know what’s available for iOS though.
There’s a good reason degoogle communities are growing these days. Your best options for YouTube are either getting something like revanced/greyjay/newpipe and watch videos without logging in, but keep in mind that it doesn’t count as views for the content creator, and you can also enable SponsorBlock, which supports them even less, so you could support them through patreon or whatever they use. Or you can just abandon YouTube all together, and use one of the many other alternatives like peertube, odyssey, nebula, rumble, bitchute, or whatever else.
“No tears” is just a play on the English language. It doesn’t mean your eyes won’t tear up and let water out, it means your hair won’t tear into pieces.
Is agreement and humor not a value? I, myself, put a lot of value into whoever can make me laugh in this day and age… And location. Hell, even getting me to slightly let air out of my nose is massively appreciated these days.
It’s still a service, both the creator and Google, provide. And support with something like patreon goes around Google AFAIK. Patreon takes a cut, but that’s another story.