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Privacy@lemmy.ml : Do you count switching from official YouTube apps to watch YouTube as having "de-googled" from YouTube? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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If you quit YouTube then you also quit all the content on YouTube that isn't elsewhere. The best solution if you still want to use it is to use 3rd party apps. Personally I would actually count that as having no reliance on Google in particular anymore. If a video platform owned by Google wasn't the most popular then it would be another platform. I don't think you should think of 3rd party apps as YouTube frontends, but rather, apps that scrape videos hosted on Google's servers.

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[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With grayjay (assuming you use Android) you can follow creators and not platforms.

Able to access quite a few different services with just 1 app

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In theory yes, but in practice Grayjay doesn't really work that way. I think for it to work as intended, the creators need to actually create a Grayjay identity and connect it to their accounts. Which literally none of them do.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It does work that way. You just type the creator's name into the cross platform search engine.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe there is more functionality that is supposed to exist beyond just the cross platform search, but that functionality depends on the cross-platform identity thing I mentioned.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

Yes.

[–] DevoidWisdom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Grayjay just let's you find creators only any platform there are plugins for. If a creator is on twitch and YouTube for example, it's really just up to you to decide if it's the same person when looking at the search results.