I switched over since I heard it was more privacy friendly than YouTube and have been using the platform for a while without issues, but this cookie banner just popped up. You can opt-out of things like “Access precise geolocation data” but a lot of other information is still shared by third parties and not opt-outable.

It seems “Reject All” is the correct choice here, but I’m not sure if it is the best choice for browser users who have to constantly log back into their accounts.

  • Fernlike@sh.itjust.worksOP
    101·
    2 months ago

    It seems like I will start using a YouTube frontend. It’s really sad that Google doesn’t have any competitors in this area.

    • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
      161·
      2 months ago

      Wait I thought you wanted to make videos. If not then there are various YouTube frontends with various levels of privacy. I use Piped/LibreTube but it’s probably the least convenient one out there. You can just use a VPN tbh.

    • Damage@feddit.it
      13·
      2 months ago

      YouTube was Google’s competitor, or rather the other way around. Then Google bought them. I can imagine they’d do that to others if they could.

    • Napain@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 months ago

      i use freetube for desktop and newpipe for android and i couldnt be happier