No idea unfortunately. But it looks to be a fork. Not sure if I tried it or not before I ended up using Innertune.

But I know these alternative Youtube frontends gave me issues with the VPN, had to exclude also Tubular in the split tunneling for it to work for me.

I use InnerTune with proton VPN (though I had to exclude it in the split tunneling setting) and all works just fine.

So say we all

Everyone has whatsapp and not signal is pretty much the gist of it