I would like to use Frontends such as Invidious, Teddit, Tubo and espiecially the extension Libredirect which automatically connects to Frontends. But I am deterred by the lack of information on how trustworthy these are.
The way in which there are dozens of different “instances” reminds me of movie piracy sites which I always believed would somehow damage my system with malware or make me easy to hack. I don’t know how rational this concern is, as I don’t have the knowledge to know what the risks of using websites of the sort could possibly be.
I am using these Frontends via Browser instead of download for the same reason of exercising caution with things I do not understand. But I read somewhere (this website I was convinced, but could not find since), that downloading applications is better than browsing for security/privacy - but it seems like downloading things is the last thing an ignorant web user should be doing.