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A screenshot of a YouTube video embedded in a news article where YouTube is throwing the error “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community.” Stitched below is a screen grab from Avengers Endgame where Captain America says, “no, I don’t think I will.”
Can’t use YouTube with my VPN without signing in
I might be wrong, but it seems like creating new accounts & using new emails or at least email forwarding services should help protect our privacy a little bit.
And some thoughts about like five people:
I feel bad YouTube is punishing YouTube Premium users who wanted to do a couple searches about finding divorce lawyers or birthday gifts to buy their kids while maintaining some privacy for a couple moments. Bet if Proton bought them they would implement some URL parameter you could pass or something.
Google requires phone for signing up accounts.
Freetube desktop app works well.
It’s more of a me problem as I don’t like installing more apps than needed, I just use Firefox for watching YouTube or download the videos to watch later with yt-dlp. Both of these methods need me to disconnect the VPN
Minimizing installed apps does help in some ways with security (idk your personal reason) but I prefer to never even render Google pages directly because of all the embedded trackers and the browser fingerprinting vector.
Startpage > anonymous view
Ublock doesn’t seem to work with their proxy
same, fortunately there’s a whole internet of content that I can browse instead of signing in.