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What is your private way of watching YouTube videos when Invidious or Piped are not working?
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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
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.
Yeah that's also a good solution!
Some invidious instances directly embeds the video from googlevideo[dot]com. This means google will get your IP. But in the setting you can choose an option to proxy the video for you.
This implies invidious and piped hide your IP address, which I'm not sure is true.
Piped always does, it's the way it works. Invidious is not always like that, at least if what is said in this issue is still true, it depends on the instance
thanks for the info