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Is there even a point of using a VPN on Google's Android? (Example: Watching Youtube on Firefox browser while logged-out)

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  • I am not even so much concerned about Google / YT getting my IP (by using a VPN), but I would only watch it though an alternative ad-blocking frontend (like Invidious, Piped, FreeTube) and not the standard YT website or app.

    None of my previously used alternative apps / frontends seems to be working anymore (at least that's my recent experience). Not sure what the difference to (Android) apps, that apparently still work (NewPipe, PipePipe) actually is, but it seems that these apps are the only remaining alternative frontends.

    • Is there even a point of using a VPN on Google's Android? (Example: Watching Youtube on Firefox browser while logged-out)

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  • I have no Android, so sadly I cannot test / use this setup.

    • Is there even a point of using a VPN on Google's Android? (Example: Watching Youtube on Firefox browser while logged-out)

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  • Is this even possible? My impression is that nowadays Google, whenever they have the impression that a connection to YouTube may been proxied, require a sign-in to prove that ""you are no bot" (I wonder which bots are watching YT videos), but in fact to avoid access via VPN or proxying via Invidious or Piped.

    That's the reason why YouTube is essentially dead for me now.

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  • Heylogin looks pretty cool, thanks for the hint. I will definitely take a deeper look into that!

    • [Analyst claims that] Apple’s First Foldable Device With An 18.8-Inch Display Will Run macOS, Reserving iPadOS For The iPad Lineup And Marking A Shift In Product Strategy

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  • Damn! I didn’t even know that I own a „foldable device“ until I looked at my MacBook...

    • Apple's First Foldable iPhone Estimated to Cost Nearly Twice as Much as iPhone 16 Pro Max

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  • I buy a new phone when I need one. Not for some new gimmick of questionable value.

    • Jokes on them, I have an adblocker installed

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  • Great picture! Absolutely legendary show...

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  • “We’re going to check out how things are going there”

    WTF should be going on there JD? None of your business!

    • Avoidable deaths are on the rise in the United States, yet falling in many peer nations.

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  • At first glance I read: "afforable deaths"...

    • I tried THIS and it actually works all the time

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  • Fun fact: I almost lost a GF once, due to a lack of cheese (in my refrigerator).

    • Now the Travel Warnings Are for America

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  • No wonder, when tourists are being thrown into deportation jail for giving the wrong answer at the border…

    • Science has not gone far enough

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  • What if you do both?

    • And I even lost the one that I had

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  • Why not?

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  • Count me in!

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  • If you survive...

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  • It was not HIS deal...

    • ‘Shut up about egg prices’: Trump shares brazen message about high costs

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  • Next on TV: "There is no discussion about egg prizes. Eggs don't even exist!"

    • DOGE staffers flew to California to try and release water themselves during LA fires

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  • Yes! I always talk about Musk's Doggy-Department.

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  • +1 for Arctic