▲ | rvnx 8 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
You also have to weight the benefits versus the "risk". For example, if you use FreeTube with SponsorBlock to improve your privacy and block ads, in fact you are sending to Cloudflare 100% of your YouTube watch history, and to SponsorBlock ("sponsor.ajay.io"). With Piped instances it's even worse, essentially escaping Google's tracking just to give our data to random strangers. If you are worried, just run a second Chrome session with NordVPN and uBlock Origin in a loose jurisdiction and browse YouTube unlogged. It's easy, simple, and you have the benefits of an audited platform and that reasonably legally confirm they don't store logs unless the court forced them: "we never log their activity unless ordered by a court never log their activity unless ordered by a court", but for that, the court has to find you as a user, which can be very complicated in practice. So much better than random strangers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | hashiyakshmi 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
>If you are worried, just run a second Chrome session with NordVPN and uBlock Origin in a loose jurisdiction and browse YouTube unlogged. If you actually did this you would know that it works for all of a week or two before YouTube stops letting you watch videos until you login. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | heavensteeth 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
SponsorBlock doesn't send video IDs to the server. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | lucb1e 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
> worse, essentially escaping Google's tracking just to give our data to random strangers I'd much rather send random tidbits of information, that are nearly useless in isolation, to strangers than to the central tracking corporation In the end, there is no way to reveal what information you're interested in when retrieving data, short of retrieving a ton of data and doing the filtering client-side, which is also an option with these third parties if you so desire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | lvass 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Terrible advice. Not only youtube will precisely fingerprint you, nordvpn/tesonet/oxylab will also get data on you. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | latexr 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
> If you are worried, just run a second Chrome session with NordVPN I feel like I’m on YouTube already. It’s not like they are free of criticism either. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | HK-NC 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm happy to give my watch history to some unknown in exchange for never ever seeing an ad. |