I almost always watch Youtube via Freetube but I opened a video in Firefox just now and got this. Is this really going to be Google's next push? Trying to force users to log in so they can tie our activity to Google accounts again?
These people are desperate.
#privacy #Google
https://nostrcheck.me/media/a89cc9312f12d213dfee1315702c32bf78870d19c0d9f70d08029923d9ad8e97/f2faf81020e5be1fcf5f84bee35d5d11cf23c662e5cdd301bc9b44c5b860b769.webp
"This helps protect our profits.". Fixed that sentence for them.
True.
Experienced tha same on android with libretube and newpipe.
I wonder why it hasn't impacted Freetube or Grayjay though 🤔
It's not surprising.
They could simply say: "Send us 21 Sats to prove you're not a bot."
Piped and Invidious are broken due to this latest move by YouTube. But `yt-dlp` from command-line still works.
Oddbean new post about login | logout 