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What is your private way of watching YouTube videos when Invidious or Piped are not working? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like most have misunderstood the point of the question, they offer to use newpipe, yt-dlp and the like, but those aren't private, they just allow you to watch without signing in, just as you could through the official website with maybe uBlock origin, you're still exposing your IP.
The only fitting suggestion I saw is that of downloading from invidious through yt-dlp, which sounds pretty neat, I had no idea you could when the web frontend is apparently not working

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes I tried to using freetube with VPN this morning. I have to say.. Its pretty good. But the catch is you have to use a vpn server that is not used by many.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like most have misunderstood the point of the question, they offer to use newpipe, yt-dlp and the like, but those aren’t private, they just allow you to watch without signing in, just as you could through the official website with maybe uBlock origin, you’re still exposing your IP.

    This implies invidious and piped hide your IP address, which I'm not sure is true.

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