Alternative Youtube Front-ends Protect Viewers

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Jan 2 00:03:51 PST 2022


Frontends don't really protect anything
since users get logged exploited cookied
js sessioned and googled watching them too.
FE's, as proxies, do help users get around
blocks of youtube itself.
But FE's as effectively link shorteners
obsure actual destination from recognition,
and get non-matched by users tools that
expecting actual destination.
FE's also down a lot or broken outdated api.
FE's seem best on lists of proxies,
not prefixed to everyones links.

Onions don't do much since sites are
available 3 hops shorter via exit anyway,
and TLS e2e is the same as onion e2e.
But do avoid all blocking except of overlay itself.


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