DuckDuckGo mentioned that their view of YouTube videos isn’t private. If I watch videos through DuckDuckGo, what kind of data does YouTube collect about me? How does it compare to watching directly on YouTube?
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Since YouTube videos are embedded when you watch them in DDG, I think they will collect the same info as what they do with the main YT website. Just an assumption though.
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Its not super in depth, but if you haven’t read it already, here is DDG’s help page for Duck Player. I haven’t used it personally.
I believe OP is referring to the view of YouTube videos in search results, not the browser. Specifically this warning:
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@BionicBison You are right.
I’m trying to find an alternative way to quickly search and watch youtube videos through my browser (other than indivious and piped)
What are the chances they can track me, with my current setup of Firefox + Arkenfox with RFP & letterboxing + Proton VPN + Temp. containers?
You are probably going to be somewhat unique with that configuration. But stay that way until they can guess more about you and make further associations/relationships internaly.
To your original question that started this thread, no one really knows that data YouTube/Google collect from one’s viewing. Although I’m sure they are doing everything they can to attempt to monetize it.
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You sbould know what a “frame” is. Basically, it’s a website inside a website. A Captcha is a frame, a “Sign with GAFAM” is a frame. An embedded tweet, or youtube videos are also frames.
You are directly connecting to the frame’s servers (in that case Youtube) and they can also serve scripts and other things.
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