What alternate Youtube frontends are there? And which ones do you recommend?

I've heard of piped due to the piped-link bot, but I am curious about others.

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and it's not free software. only source available with a license that doesn't allow forking.

And they do it so they can take down malicious copycats on Google Play

Which they could already do, with basic trademark law and just forcing all derivatives to be non-commercial. Cyrptominers are commercial.

Forcing all derivatives work to be non-commercial is incompatible with being open source.

Though I agree that they can already prevent usage of their app name with trademark laws.