Hi,
With all the trouble Piped is going through now and most instances of Invidious capping at 720p, I have been trying to figure out how to use Freetube in a better way. Freetube can either be used to proxy videos through Invidious or to directly stream from Youtube.
I was wondering to what extent I am tracked when streaming from Youtube while using Freetube behind a VPN, while not being logged in.
Thanks :)
4 Comments
gorysubparbagel@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
Should be no tracking. As long you are using a vpn, your public IP address shouldn't be visible to YouTube and freetube doesn't load the tracking scripts used by YouTube. It makes api requests to fetch only the video content.
saesdev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 3y
what's the trouble with Piped?
kryllic@programming.dev · 3 pts · 3y
Google is apparently going full scorched-earth policy by banning the ip addresses of proxy servers. Other frontends are experiencing this issue too, though I will say I used Piped today successfully at 1080p on the official instance so maybe it's working again?
geekmiki@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 3y
It really depends of the instance/time of the day, but lately it has been very inconsistent: subscriptions list not loading, need to change instance every day, some instances buffering a lot, etc