Couldn’t they somejow just correlate that info and know that its you watching the video. I feel like its futile…
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Online privacy typically requires that you think of what you are trying to protect yourself from.
So, what are you trying to prevent?
A VPN will make your public IP address private. This can hide some activity from your ISP, hackers, marketing companies. However, it’s only one layer of protection.
(You could also use NewPipe as a replacement to the YouTube app.)
However, some VPN companies will track you and sell your information. Because of this, I recommend ProtonVPN (free tier, Swiss-based, encrypted traffic that they can’t even de-anonymize).
If you want more complete privacy, you’d want to use something like a Tor Box, but these aren’t typically good for streaming because the layered routing makes for a slow Internet connection.