Limit YouTube cross-device tracking?
from aeiou@piefed.social to privacy@lemmy.ml on 02 Feb 23:30
https://piefed.social/c/privacy/p/1732877/limit-youtube-cross-device-tracking

I miss the olden days when staying logged out of your account meant your recommendations weren’t cluttered up by every post you read, video you watched or search you did across every device.

Any way to curb this?

#privacy

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PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Feb 23:42 next collapse

I’m using libredirect.github.io so whenever I click a YouTube link it opens it on some Invidious instance

artyom@piefed.social on 03 Feb 01:14 collapse

That’s great except they’re always down

PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Feb 02:40 collapse

For YouTube? Not for me, and if some instance is down I just click “Remove + Autopick” on the addon and it redirects to other instance… if all instances are down, I can choose other 12 frontends to use from the addon menu (but I never did, I have only used Invidious so far)

the_abecedarian@piefed.social on 02 Feb 23:40 next collapse

use a front end, like invidious

scytale@piefed.zip on 03 Feb 02:18 next collapse

Browser containers?

hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org on 03 Feb 02:25 next collapse

i just use temporary containers on firefox so my cookies are always empty, i’m sure they still track me internally but youtube suggestions seem unaffected by my usage history

ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml on 03 Feb 18:44 collapse

Don’t have a youtube account