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 :)

  • gorysubparbagel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.