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.worldEnglish
    14·
    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.

    • kryllicEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Google is apparently going full scorched-earth policy by banning the ip addresses of proxy servers. Other frontends are experiencing this issue too, though I will say I used Piped today successfully at 1080p on the official instance so maybe it’s working again?

      • geekmiki@jlai.luOPEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        It really depends of the instance/time of the day, but lately it has been very inconsistent: subscriptions list not loading, need to change instance every day, some instances buffering a lot, etc