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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The only way is to quit Youtube entirely, but It wont matter as Google already has a ton of info on him but I'm sure he has enough money to live without Youtube.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago

There is no real Youtube alternative, he talked about still using Youtube in the video

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

You forgot to mention the aliases

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Reminder that Orion is not open source, but it is made by a reputable company Kagi. They will make it open source soon though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You think using uBlock and a VPN while signed out with a good browser isn't good enough? Agree YouTube is heavy but only if you have like 8gb of ram with lots of videos open

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Sad it's still not available on iOS yet...

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

It doesn't know your device model but it knows you're using an iPhone, but yes it can use the width of the viewport size to narrow down just like a screenshot but It does not matter as much if you have a more common sized iPhone rather than having a iPhone 16 Pro Max which is completely unique. Most likely there are other alternative browsers that spoof the viewport size for iOS, like letter boxing in Firefox.

I just talked about screenshots as they are shared all the time and some people might not want other people to know what type of phone they are currently using, just general privacy.

For iOS devices, the model is not included in the metadata of a screenshot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Why can't you share screenshots? It's just general bad op-sec, obviously your phone model alone can't be used against you, but it can be used to connect the dots with other information. People send screenshots all the time, and you can still share a screenshot of something while having privacy.

Some people share screenshots without knowing they are also giving other data included, like there phone model or something close to it. Even if metadata is stripped

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

It's bad op-sec and general privacy. What if you don't want anybody knowing you use a old burner phone? Some people even hide there timezone even though millions of people have the same one, RFP hides your timezone aswell. People don't share there birthday even though they aren't the only person with it even without the year. It's about connecting the dots with multiple pieces of information, and this is one of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Wouldn't you have to do it constantly?

 

When you send a screenshot (even if height/width only is cropped) , the screenshot's width and height can be used to find the iPhone model of someone or narrowed down.

The most unique sized iPhone on the market right now is the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, as no other phone has the same width and height. So if you send a screenshot people will 100% know your exact phone. The regular iPhone 16 is common with the rest of the other phones and not unique.

If you send a screenshot from a iPhone XR, people can know if you using an iPhone 11 or iPhone XR since they have the same dimension which narrows down alot of options. (828x1792)

You can use this site here to view a list of all the dimensions. Click the iPhone's tab and sort the physical width or height.

If you don't want to expose your phone model, crop both width and height of each screenshot randomly. I would suggest cropping out the top of the phone as it shows your time if you care about that. Some sites like X have random inaccurate dimensions in uploaded screenshots, which is different from the original raw screenshot.

I haven't really checked with android phones, but it's probably the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is there a reason why you are not using the regular youtube? Just curious since I currently use YouTube website signed out on iOS. Invidious does not have recommendations aswell.

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