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      14 days ago

      Doesn’t libretube use a piped instance as a proxy by default so our IP isn’t revealed to YT? I guess you could also run a VPN in the background

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              12 days ago

              yes, kind of. they are a proxy that takes the stream from google and streams it back to you from a lightweight frontend.

              it’s like invidious instances for youtube (nadeko, catsarch, etc)

              redlib instances for reddit, nitter for twitter (xcancel), imginn for instagram and more.

              you will often see a bot posting links to them in my instance’s comms when people post links to youtube and such.

              libredirect is a browser extension that manages them.