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 That's how you do it! Fantastic setup you have, mine is only slightly different:
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Mullvad VPN
Have TOR browser ready if needed
If practical, use a different browser sometimes 
Newpipe for YT on Android 
 great.l!! I use Mullvad, too.  
 Does your Newpipe also regularly refuse to playback videos since one of two months? It's really starting to be annoying... 🤬 
 I use Brave to play YT videos. It works as long as I don't open videos via links posted in other apps, e.g. from Telegram. Once I use a YT link forwarded from another app, it requires a YT log in and won't play the video. Solution: close brave session (delete session history if not done automatically), use new VPN location (change IP address) and search video in brave/YT directly. Maybe it's the same with Newpipe.   
 Thanks, will try changing VPN location 
 yeah, this sucks. Usually I wait for the next update and it's fixed. Seems Google is regularly changing something which breaks the newpipe playback 
 Surprisingly a smartphone reboot fixes the bug most of the time. 🤷‍♂️