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  • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mldax
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    6 months ago

    As far as I know piped gets the video from youtube and serves it to you so that youtube only sees traffic coming from the piped instance you are using. Using adblockers would give you the same benefits as using piped except for the anonymity. As long as tor gives you a good video quality, it is a better option than the frontend because you don’t have a piped instance knowing your traffic.

    I don’t like my traffic being fingerprinted by youtube but can’t handle the slow tor connections so I ended up using a frontend for youtube. The one I use is called Invidious.


    1. Go to preferences in your searx instance. In your case https://paulgo.io/preferences
    2. After reviewing the settings, go to the cookies tab and copy the link under Search URL of the currently saved preferences:
    3. Go to your Firefox settings in the three pointed menu
    4. Go to general>Search>Manage alternative search engines>Add search engine
    5. Paste the link you copied in the box called URL to use for search
    6. Give it a name and Save it

    Having added the search engine you can also make it the default if you want. You’ll be able to select it by taping the icon with the search engines while typing a search string.

    Edit: Corrected the place to get the search string url