(this isnt a question about how to make invidious more secure/private i just want google to stop knowing everything i do and every device i have) I like watching youtube videos. I hate google. I try invidious. It’s pretty cool.

I watch the videos I like on it. But I get suspicous. The channels I wacth even after I change my Ip, clear my cookies, change my tor circuts, even change my entire os to something real private like tails or qubes with whonix , ARE STILL RECOMMENDED TO ME. So I do a test. I watch channels I don’t like. There it is. I feel like google is laughing in my face

Whats worse, I went on a different device and the same videos are there :(.

ive tried vpns, tor, tails, whonix in qubes, quad9, and nothing works. what do i do now?

(im not concerned about youtube synching reccomendations im concerned about google knowing what i like, and what devices i have no matter what tools i use)

    • Lytia @lemmy.today
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      9 hours ago

      You said somewhere else that you don’t use android. Cromite is exclusive to android due to how iOS restricts browsers.

      iOS forces all apps to use WebKit as a browser engine (though that might change soon in the EU), so you don’t really get much better than Safari / Brave on iOS.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      I mean Google can identify you with stuff like your resolution, cpu and gpu, measured execution speed, extensions, APIs, software versions. Browsers expose all that.

      Check this site out. Its a great explainer: https://amiunique.org/

      Now, if you run amiunique in Cromite, the results are interesting.

      It may identify some stuff, but if you actually look at the readouts, you can see Cromite is spoofing data. It intenionally lies about your hardware and configurations to throw off fingerprinting, amongst other things.

      This means it can actually mess up some sites that rely on the data: thats what I mean by “draconian.” Tons of features are disabled or stripped out. Cromite is a very extreme browser to daily drive, because its purpose built to defeat fingerprinting at any cost.