I would need to know more details on your use case to say for certain, hard to know for sure without knowing the apps in question.

This comes to mind - I use it personally everyday and find it comes in handy for tasks like you’ve described above: https://github.com/TrianguloY/URLCheck

The below website provides the answer to your question: https://redirect.invidious.io/

I started using Garuda because of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ZSLNbgF14&t=407

I’ve had the opposite experience, largely issue free with both KDE and anytime i update the system. Based on what I’ve read about Arch based distros, I’m glad I tried it for myself because a lot of the FUD I read online did not seem to apply to my experience.