But tor is a pain in the backside .... I can't play Youtube videos over it (any (safe) solution to that ?)
That's the price of privacy. Just do it and stop complaining.
Having googled the problem it appears Youtube has a HTML5 player that you can opt in to and use. I tried it and it works using the Tor browser.
So you don't have to "just do it" - or indeed complain about it anymore
