New safety rules require users to verify their identities before gaining access to sites. This spells the end of the relative anonymity that we’ve come to expect online.
I’ve noticed it’s become increasingly harder to even watch Youtube w/o signing in to give me a “better experience” when I’m using a VPN. LOL, I don’t WANT to fucking log in just to watch a video, guys, but of course Google knows that…
For now, it seems to work by using Invidious while on Firefox + VPN. But this seems extremely fragile and prone to breakage.
Thing is, now is not the time (not that it ever was) to let gigantic megacorps scoop up all your data so that if it becomes completely evil after a takeover from someone with a political agenda (imagine another fElon taking over Google’s data, for example) they can target you for whatever made-up bullshit reasons.
I’d recommend just using yt-dlp and your favorite video player.
MPV will also automatically invoke it from the command line if you do mpv <youtubeURL> but you’ll need to turn your cache settings way up if you want any seeking as data is only cached on the MPV side.
I’ve noticed it’s become increasingly harder to even watch Youtube w/o signing in to give me a “better experience” when I’m using a VPN. LOL, I don’t WANT to fucking log in just to watch a video, guys, but of course Google knows that…
For now, it seems to work by using Invidious while on Firefox + VPN. But this seems extremely fragile and prone to breakage.
Thing is, now is not the time (not that it ever was) to let gigantic megacorps scoop up all your data so that if it becomes completely evil after a takeover from someone with a political agenda (imagine another fElon taking over Google’s data, for example) they can target you for whatever made-up bullshit reasons.
There’s the FreeTube and GrayJay desktop & mobile apps, as well as PipePipe, NewPipe, and LibreTube for mobile exclusively.
Ive had freetube and libretube break more often than naught lately. Having to switch vpn servers and invidious instances is a pain. Thanks google!
They should work fine without a VPN if that’s any consolation. Its what I do when they block more than 2 servers in a row because I can’t be bothered
Makes sense, I just hate not having it on
I’d recommend just using yt-dlp and your favorite video player.
MPV will also automatically invoke it from the command line if you do
mpv <youtube URL>but you’ll need to turn your cache settings way up if you want any seeking as data is only cached on the MPV side.