(this isnt a question about how to make invidious more secure/private i just want google to stop knowing everything i do and every device i have) I like watching youtube videos. I hate google. I try invidious. It’s pretty cool.
I watch the videos I like on it. But I get suspicous. The channels I wacth even after I change my Ip, clear my cookies, change my tor circuts, even change my entire os to something real private like tails or qubes with whonix , ARE STILL RECOMMENDED TO ME. So I do a test. I watch channels I don’t like. There it is. I feel like google is laughing in my face
Whats worse, I went on a different device and the same videos are there :(.
ive tried vpns, tor, tails, whonix in qubes, quad9, and nothing works. what do i do now?
(im not concerned about youtube synching reccomendations im concerned about google knowing what i like, and what devices i have no matter what tools i use)
dumb question: can you get firefox extentsions on it?
Nope.
I think many Chrome extensions don’t work either, because of disabled APIs.
FYI extensions are another thing that can be used to fingerprint you. There’s a discussion on this somewhere on the Cromite GitHub, hence they don’t recommend extensions.
aw man thanks for the recommendation though.
one more question, does it have ad blocking?
Yep, built in, with customizable lists.
thanks 👍
Just FYI, it might not be sophisticated enough to beat YouTube ads. Not sure about that.
thanks for the honesty i could just go blind and deaf thatll do it
If you are just looking to anonymize YouTube, I’d browse with Cromite,download longer videos with yt-dlp, and watch them in mpv. Or use something that automates that.
You get better video quality that way, anyway.