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Does usage of third party youtube apps necessitate a VPN in the near future? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Greetings y'all. I've been using ways to circumvent YouTube ads for years now. I'd much rather donate to creators directly instead of using Google as a middle man, needing YouTube Premium. If even pay for premium for just a add free version, if the price wouldn't be so outrageous. I've So far used adblockers, Vanced and then Revanced.

Since the recent developments in this matter, I've setup Tubearchivist, a self hosted solution to download YouTube videos for later consumption. It mostly works great, with a few minor things that bother me but I highly recommend it. ReVanced also still works, but nobody knows for how long.

The question now is, if I should use a VPN to obscure my identity to Google. I don't know if I'm being paranoid here but I wouldn't put it past Google to block my account, if they see YouTube traffic for my IP address and no served ads. Revanced even uses my main Google account, so not that far fetched.

So far, or at least to my knowledge, Google has never done this but I think they just might in the future. So I'm planning on putting tubearchivist behind a VPN via gluetun.

What do you think? I'm eager to hear your opinions on this.

I can also add my docker compose, if there's interest and when I'm back on my PC.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I would say air on the side of caution. I don’t use any google services outside of YouTube so me getting my account banned would cost me nothing. I personally wouldn’t be hurt at all if my account was banned.

If you live in google world and suddenly and irrevocably losing all your google accounts/access/data would be painful you should go with a VPN. Google is a private company where you have no rights to appeal.

Lastly if you do live in google world you should consider getting out. Don’t let mega companies run your life by fear nor allure.

Edit: Don’t use free VPNs. If you are not paying you are the product.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don't actually get banned, they just don't let you watch youtube videos until you turn off your adblocker. You can even sign out and never see the ad block blocks because its tied to your account only.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True but we don’t know what google does to accounts that are bulk download videos from their platform for offline viewing. It’s definitely against the terms of service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Jup, that is precisely what I meant and why I advocate for people to be cautious, if they use their Google account for more things than just YouTube.

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