I’m not sure it’s the “best” way, but it’s a solid alternative, and receives rapid updates when YouTube moves to break things.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/15571129
I’m using this all the time myself. There is no login to YouTube required and it supports adding subscriptions and doing everything important you can do on YouTube.
And the best part is no ads whatsoever.
It’s annoying though that you can’t save videos to lists or subscribe to channels without logging in to youtube account.
Newpipe or Clipious also work on AndroidTV
Just make a dummy account for only that if you don’t want to mix yours into YT