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      2 days ago

      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

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          2 days ago

          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.

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              22 hours ago

              yes, kind of. they are a proxy that takes them 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.