Been using yt-dlp for videos and for watching live streams VPN + Mullvad Browser. Tried Nadeko but keeps stopping and all of this is annoying. Wish Piped still worked.

That’s actually a good idea. I’ll open a topic on this.

I think this varies vastly. Mullvad for me works great with YouTube. Reddit does suck with VPNs in general, but I can just use the Mullvad proxy extension to work around it.

[image] anon23428838: If you are not using Mullvad VPN with Mullvad Browser, those fingerprinting protections that Mullvad Browser has to offer are no longer guaranteed because you now have one core data point that stands out from the rest of the people. i am not sure where do you get these m…

[image] pika: i am not sure where do you get these misinformation from. I would suggest reading mullvad browser docs. It has very less to do with your ip address . The use case for vpn is different, it essentially mask your traffic from your isp provider. So using mullvad browser with a vpn j…

[image] anon73250778: Ok what is the actionable thing to do? i am thinking I still keep NewPipe for getting feed list updates without logging on to a Google but at this point, how is this not different from an RSS feed? Maybe I should consolidate all news and media feed at home? I don’t know.…

Potential solution here: [image] Automatically download youtube videos from a list of creators Questions Following all the Youtube vs Frontends shenanigans, what would be the best way to automatically download youtube videos without an account?

You can try https://yewtu.be/ though youtube with ublock hard/ medium is fine as well i think

I use Newpipe and dont have problems. It works better than Libretube in my experience.

I am managing to use invidious from my browser, but it’s far from ideal. Does any app work with a VPN (on GOS)? LibreTube and NewPipe don’t seem to work for me.

Grayjay works for me using Proton VPN in certain less used countries locations

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