So it is an American thing then? I feel sorry for you to experience that. But I personally never see anyone even use it in a racism way. Probably because of my own ignorance like you said. The internet is open tho. It is not just for US culture/culture issue. So honestly for the rest of the world, I do not think it is an issue at all. Maybe we can try to resolve it in some way? Idk
A lot of people seem to argue about ricing and the "original" meaning of it. But honestly as an Asian I don't really think any Asian(at least in my country) actually care or even know the meaning of it. The ricing term of the Linux community is far from racism. What so wrong with rice? cuz we love it? I honestly don't get it.
That is a fair point. Source first software isn't a part of FLOSS, but even in worst case scenarios it still can be considered as "source available". Which is better in term of transparency compared to closed source App. OP asked for "private" way to watch Youtube not open source way, so I think grayjay could still be a great choice. We are talking about watching from YouTube which is a corpo closed source spyware anyway.
Grayjay seems to be really stable compared to newpipe. I used it for 6 months now never break once. They also recently released a beta version for desktop which is quite promising
I personally think Freetube is the best for desktop right now. Recently, there is also grayjay for desktop. The UI is still buggy IMO, but also seem promising.
If you don't mind. You can try to setup proton VPN with network manager(which I am pretty sure have native WireGuard support). But I am not sure if you can do that with atomic OS or not tbh.
Last time I checked, it do require login with Google account. It is long time ago tho, so idk if it is still the case.