I'm currently in the process of switching from YouTube to Piped and was getting fed up with rewriting YouTube links myself. I finally found an extension that can do this with a relatively easy setup:
Thought maybe more people might find this interesting. My setup is in the pic.
Edit: @nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de Just suggested using LibRedirect which is even better than Redirector. Also since Redirector isn't really maintained anymore.
I dunno how so many people use Piped. It doesn’t even work half the time. Not unless I disable the Piped API.
Kavin.rocks doesn’t work for me either but piped.yt does.
I use Freetube instead.