What browser are you using and can you please post a site with embedding that does not work for you.

I have Librewolf, Ublock set to medium mode, libredirect Redirect Type set to both, Embed Frontend set to Invidious but with no instance selected.

Most sites with embedded youtube have ‘Watch on Youtube’ bottom left and you can just right click and select Redirect in librediract. Some don’t have that but most allow right click where you can select the url that can be pasted into FreeTube.

You can set libredirect to use FreeTube.

Yet another corporate self-serving move that should highlight the need for de-googling, but with a monopolist controlling information flow how many will notice, and if they do, how many will recognize there are counter options, even if made difficult by the dominant web player…I would like to say it is blatantly time to break up big tech, but realistically I can’t see that happening, given regulatory capture of US politics, on both sides, as an outside observer.

Being Australian this is likely one to report to the ACCC, as Aussies at least have basic consumer protection, though that get murky with overseas tech entities.