Hello everyone, I’m an user of Piped and Libretube for Youtube. I love being de-Googled. But what’s the major difference (excluding metadata) about using Youtube only from browser (with Security-Privacy oriented browser, auto-deleted cookies per tab, without account) vs using Piped?

Thanks.

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    27 days ago

    With Piped you are watching videos through the Piped server, which is the one calling YouTube. So Google knows the server is watching but it does not know it’s you. A proxy, they call it.

    The benefit is clearly that your views get mixed with many other people’s and tracking individually is way more difficult.

    Also, you get to have subs, playlists… All synced with your Piped account.