loxoCan't watch any YouTube videos anymore, what do I do now?
Don’t log in to watch youtube. You’re not one of those…(spits) youtube commenters, are you? Use 3rd party frontends for your subscriptions. Some don’t even need a google account.
Why not log into YouTube? Google already tracks your browser everywhere else - including your online banking, which often you can’t access without enabling connections to google.com and gstatic.com (along with the domain you’re actually accessing, that provides 3 points of internet routing for highly effective triangulation).
Facebook tracks you even when you’re not logged in. Maybe not logging in makes the data they collect slightly less valuable, but they’re still collecting it. At least logging in gives you access to a proper watch history.
Saying all that, more power to you if you choose to work around it. However, if you’re going to youtube.com to watch things then there isn’t really any difference doing so logged in or logged out, for the most part.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸Just block all Google domains in your DNS/Firewall and have a separate browser with a different DoH resolver exclusively for online banking. You can go even further and have a separate VM or physical device for online banking only.
If you block Google, you won’t be able to log into many online banking services.
Just read my entire comment
My bad. Still, you’d need to use that different browser (or multiple different browsers) for everything that requires connections to Google. At some point the extra effort just isn’t worth it - I’m more or less content blocking by default and choosing when to enable it.
I’ve been blocking Google in my DNS resolver for almost a year. Haven’t noticed any major issues. If a website doesn’t work, I open it in the Mullvad Browser while connected to a proxy server and the Mullvad adblocking DoH resolver. That way Google doesn’t get the IP I use for all other connections. I almost never have to use that though, most things work without connections to Google services. It’s not much effort, if you use NextDNS, just enable the ‘No Google’ filterlist. You can also import that list into your Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home, it’s available on GitHub: github.com/nickspaargaren/no-google. I use Piped to access YouTube, the only Google service I use. All connections to YouTube are proxied through the Piped server, so I don’t need to connect to it directly. Edit: If you use the Safing Portmaster, you can also use its built-in Google filterlist to block all connections.
