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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.”

      • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        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

        • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
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          1 month ago

          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.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 month ago

      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.