Turns out I did not try enough instances! Piped.lunar.icu threw a certificate date error and piped.yt threw a js error (or semething). Piped.video works fine!

This is on PC.

I’ve tried a few different instances and videos will not play. I’m using Brave and a VPN: blacklisting issues?

I just use websites which provide temporary phone numbers (for free) for the purposes of phone verification. I don’t remember if Discord in particular requires use of 2FA, but this works for sites which do not do that. Even those with 1 account limit per phone number can be circumvented this way if you care enough to spend the time trying a hundred different numbers.