• flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    You can do that through their own interface though, there are browser extensions to do all the things invidious did anyway

    Not like going to the website will cause your computer to blow up or something, if privacy is the concern there are plenty of ways to anonymise it

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      1 month ago

      This isnt entirely true. They can fingerprint your browser very easily, even if you use always private sessions that delete cookies. Something as simple as the size of your window can be used to identify you.

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        I suppose if you really can’t stand to give them any information at all, don’t want to pay and don’t use ads your only choice is to not use the service

        They provide a pretty good service all things considered and have to pay the bills for their servers somehow

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          If they were to be independently audited by multiple Privacy firms and/or open source their codebase I wouldnt be as concerned about giving them data and maybe even paying for something like YTPremium, but as it stands its a black box. I dont know what theyre doing, why should they get to know what I’m doing? Privacy should be a two way street imho. If the cost of privacy is that they wouldnt be able to maintain their infrastructure, I’d rather see their company fail.