Why do this? Because surveillance capitalism wants you to be less free. It wants you to be glued to the screen. It wants you to buy whatever advertisers want you to buy. But you can fight back by deliberately poisoning your data.

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[–] 64 points 9 months ago (21 children)

What's the tl;dr for people that don't want to navigate to YouTube?

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  • [–] 61 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Don't engage with algorithms, especially ones trying to sell things, like major corporate social media.

    Pretend to be something you're not, especially vulnerable targeted populations. This lowers their ability easily target minorities.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    Pretend to be something you’re not

    In my life, I was Noel Gruber who worked at Taco Bell in Uranium City, Saskatchewan. But in my dreams I played a different role. I was Monique Gibeau in post-war France! A hooker, with a heart of black charcoal.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    So the fact that I occasionally get ads in Spanish, despite being a native English speaker in a mainly English-speaking country, means I'm doing something right?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I would say so. You can also intermittently make a new profile, and seed it initially with wildly different personal info and interests.

    It is a good practice to restart independent accounts and not reuse them on multiple devices.

    You can also silo types of information, like location, personal stats, email, browsing history, web searches, chat services, calls, etc.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    If you're on android, you can use an app like NewPipe to view YouTube content without actually going to YouTube. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe

    On a browser, you can use an invidious instance like https://yewtu.be. That also lets you view YouTube content ad free without signing in.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    invidious instances never work for me, but with this one i could get further than ever, but when trying to play a video i get this error: “The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.”

    what could this be?

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    thank you object and slempt for your feedback. so investigating yewtu.be does work on desktop without any problems, but on my iphone it depends on which browser and dns blocker i use. can anyone recommend a good newpipe substitute for iOS?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    sorry, i didn’t find the alternative list, can you send me a link please?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Pipepipe supersedes newpipe doesn't it? That's what I'm using anyhow.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Pipepipe is a hard fork of newpipe. I prefer it myself because of sponsorblock and the danmaku comments.

    Those are niconicodouga style comments across the video.

    Niconicodouga is a Japanese video sharing platform similar to YouTube in function and age. I think it's older even.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    That's what that's called? I remember being so annoyed by that and forgetting how I solved it lol.

    Ya from what I recall newpipe was broken for a good amount of time and someone forked to pipepipe and it seems updated more frequently.

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