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Couldn't they somejow just correlate that info and know that its you watching the video. I feel like its futile...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have no Android, so sadly I cannot test / use this setup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. At the least though, it demonstrates that it is still possible to watch YouTube via proxy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I am not even so much concerned about Google / YT getting my IP (by using a VPN), but I would only watch it though an alternative ad-blocking frontend (like Invidious, Piped, FreeTube) and not the standard YT website or app.

None of my previously used alternative apps / frontends seems to be working anymore (at least that's my recent experience). Not sure what the difference to (Android) apps, that apparently still work (NewPipe, PipePipe) actually is, but it seems that these apps are the only remaining alternative frontends.