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What is your private way of watching YouTube videos when Invidious or Piped are not working? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 days ago by cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Many YT privacy frontends are down it seems. YouTube is cracking down on these servers fast. Both Invidious and Piped services are not working now.

So how are you watching videos now? Just plain youtube[dot]com with unblock and VPN?

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[–] Undertaker@feddit.org -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

NewPipe needs VPN or Tor for privacy which usually gets blocked

[–] llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That really depends on your threat model. The app isn't monitoring your activity or has imbedded trackers. It pulls content directly from YouTube's CDN. All they (Google) know is your IP address, but nothing else. For 99.9% of people that's totally ok.