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[email protected] : What are benefits for using privacy friendly frontends for apps like Reddit and YouTube compared to accessing them and using UBlock Origin? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems like the main benefit of such frontends is the lack of trackers and fingerprinting, but what if the browser, like Firefox, already did that with UBlock Origin and fingerprinting protection?

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[–] MrSoup 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Think about performance improvement since the frontend does not load things which gets deleted by an addon, so it's lighter on resources.

Talking about privacy, using a frontend prevents Google from getting your IP.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That’s not entirely correct, invidious doesn’t act as a proxy. From the invidious faq:

By default, the video stream is fetched directly from Google's servers (googlevideo.com) in order to reduce the bandwidth required by invidious, meaning that Google will be able to see your IP address and some other data commonly sent by web browsers, like your user-agent string.

[–] MrSoup 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's invidious, piped actually act as a proxy (which is what I use).
Thanks for pointing out.

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