Couldn’t they somejow just correlate that info and know that its you watching the video. I feel like its futile…

  • TheProtagonist@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Is this even possible? My impression is that nowadays Google, whenever they have the impression that a connection to YouTube may been proxied, require a sign-in to prove that "“you are no bot” (I wonder which bots are watching YT videos), but in fact to avoid access via VPN or proxying via Invidious or Piped.

    That’s the reason why YouTube is essentially dead for me now.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Is this even possible? My impression is that nowadays Google, whenever they have the impression that a connection to YouTube may been proxied, require a sign-in to prove that "“you are no bot”

      On Mullvad/IVPN, if you keep change the server, you’ll eventually find one that works. Might have to switch like 7-10 times.

      On ProtonVPN, they have way more servers, so you only need to change the server 2-3 times. I actually didn’t need to change the server the last time I used ProtonVPN.

  • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    It depends who you are trying to hide from. A VPN will hide your internet traffic from your ISP/phone company, but obviously not from the site you are visiting.

    At best you might be one of may people connecting from the same (VPN) IP address, but they can still collect info from your browser/app etc to generate points to ID you if they want.