I have a separate profile that is set-up for Google (In Brave). You could also use a container tab if using Firefox (Or even a profile, but FF profiles don’t work as well as Brave ones).

You can also see the YouTube creators who have BAT accounts set-up.

I do pay for YT premium family as well as I don’t want other family members to see ads.

Regarding FF profiles - if using more than one at a time, you need to set the others to -no-remote, and then opening links only ever opens up in the main windows. In chromium browsers when opening outside links whatever browser profile that had focus last opens the links).

Google Contributor allowed exactly this, and after setting it up you did not need to be logged in to use it.

It's closed down now due to internal politics.

Agreed. I’m happy to pay for youtube premium but I don’t want to log into google because google will ask for my phone number, and my YouTube activity will be tracked. I only use YouTube logged out.

> If I log into YouTube, that requires me to be logged into Google everywhere and I do not want that at all.

You can use Firefox Containers to sandbox Google logins.

Alternatively, you can use a different browser when accessing Google-owned websites.

If you click on a YouTube link now will the browser know what container to open that in?

Yes, you can configure it in a way that every Youtube link opens in the Youtube container.