floquant

And I know NewPipe works with video, I meant I strictly use it for music (behind VPN) and nothing else for the reason above.

Gotcha, I misunderstood.

I still don’t want Google to link the IPs I use to the content I’m interested in.

But YouTube’s servers only know that some ProtonVPN (ex.) user is connecting. They aren’t able to discriminate your music requests from those of some other user on the same VPN server - based on the IP alone at least. That’s assuming you never generate any traffic on that node while signed into your Google account of course. Is the video vs music distinction because song listens offer less bits of identifying information than videos?

Don’t take this as preaching what you should or shouldn’t do, I don’t judge anyone’s threat model - just always curious about where people draw the privacy vs “comfort” line :)

Don’t expose your real IP, keep a VPN on all the time and not only when you have traffic you want to mask.

NewPipe definitely does play video. I have it installed and it works fine

Use mpv on desktop, newpipe on mobile

critical_thinking.rst

“easy if you have a diffraction-limited watt-scale laser” I guess

Intentional deletion is a lot different to entropy-caused bitrot