Looks like its over for me and youtube. Being told I cant watch because of an ad blocker.

Where is everyone moving to and using instead of youtube? I will just move to the same place.

  • @[email protected]
    1•9 months ago

    For YouTube, NewPipe is an anonymous…

    Not quite. From LibreTube’s GitHub page on their differences:

    With NewPipe, the extraction is done locally on your phone, and all the requests sent towards YouTube/Google are done directly from the network you’re connected to, which doesn’t use a middleman server in between. Therefore, Google can still access information such as the user’s IP address. Aside from that, subscriptions can only be stored locally.

    LibreTube takes this one step further and proxies all requests via Piped (which uses the NewPipeExtractor). This prevents Google servers from accessing your IP address or any other personal data.

    Either way, I use a VPN for both.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•9 months ago

      You’re right - NewPipe isn’t totally anonymous.

      The distinction I was trying to make was that you didn’t have to use a Google/YouTube account. I should’ve made that clearer.