RiQuY@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 days agoCars are surveillance devices. Here's the proof.www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down17
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minus-squareAporia@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 days agoI only have libretube on my phone so YouTube links just open in libretube instead which I believe should address the surveillance aspect
minus-squarehexagonwin@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 days agothey still see your ip and the vid you played tho
minus-squareAporia@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoDoesn’t libretube use a piped instance as a proxy by default so our IP isn’t revealed to YT? I guess you could also run a VPN in the background
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 days agofrontend instances are the way to stop this.
minus-squarehexagonwin@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days ago…which are getting blocked insanely fast nowadays…
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days agothey work if you don’t use them too much can tolerate a bit of downtime here and there. i recommend libredirect and finding multiple good ones, so it deals with that for you.
minus-squareScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoI’m interested. What is a frontend instance? Like, the server acts as a reverse proxy or something?
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 days agoyes, kind of. they are a proxy that takes the stream from google and streams it back to you from a lightweight frontend. it’s like invidious instances for youtube (nadeko, catsarch, etc) redlib instances for reddit, nitter for twitter (xcancel), imginn for instagram and more. you will often see a bot posting links to them in my instance’s comms when people post links to youtube and such. libredirect is a browser extension that manages them.
I only have libretube on my phone so YouTube links just open in libretube instead which I believe should address the surveillance aspect
they still see your ip and the vid you played tho
Doesn’t libretube use a piped instance as a proxy by default so our IP isn’t revealed to YT? I guess you could also run a VPN in the background
frontend instances are the way to stop this.
…which are getting blocked insanely fast nowadays…
they work if you don’t use them too much can tolerate a bit of downtime here and there.
i recommend libredirect and finding multiple good ones, so it deals with that for you.
I’m interested. What is a frontend instance? Like, the server acts as a reverse proxy or something?
yes, kind of. they are a proxy that takes the stream from google and streams it back to you from a lightweight frontend.
it’s like invidious instances for youtube (nadeko, catsarch, etc)
redlib instances for reddit, nitter for twitter (xcancel), imginn for instagram and more.
you will often see a bot posting links to them in my instance’s comms when people post links to youtube and such.
libredirect is a browser extension that manages them.