yes it is, they manage dns using cloudflare, but not provide any dtata to them

for my server i use porkbun this cheap but relaible and my raspberry pi3b for small cloud servers, xmpp, wireguard, works nicely

just ask them and bring your device, so i did same when i was student, yes this is a shame to introduce young people with bloated software, governments also have benefits from advertising microslop, adobe, google etc. software solutions, so you can still use vnc protocol or ssh protocols if they leave you no choice

so the best option not to use chrome based web browsers that have aid youtube to avoid it, there are great experience in adblock using mozilla browser(or their forks like librewolf or icecat) and ublock origin, then we have full fdroid of clients for example newpipe with is based on invidous api that you can even host for yourself and friends, this free of any ads crap, when youtube decide to block their api then this will die yes, welcome to peertube😜