I installed Brave so that I can contribute to the site while still being a cheap cunt at heart. Thing is, I stream a lot of YouTube videos in the background and that drives my attention rating on the site down to 2% even if I spend all day dicking around here.
I didn't really feel like installing another browser and having it hog more RAM (400MB to run a video at 144p? Fuck outta here) so I installed Smtube, a YouTube search GUI:
https://www.smtube.org/
It says you have to install SMPlayer alongside it but just ignore that shit if you'd like. Download it, boot it up, go to Settings, point it to the media player of your choice (that choice is VLC, you mongs), scrub the other options from the list and away you go. Bonus round; if you're just listening you can disable video playback which saves even more RAM (and data, if you've got a cap).
Plox no bully me if there's better options; I'm real delicate.
ETA: the interface is a bit clunky but prior experience with smtube tells me that searches actually return relevant videos in a sensible order without a lot of fucking around with filters so its worth the ugliness. Persevere, farmers!