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by livre 1857 days ago
Why do they add that warning in bold about NewPipe sharing your IP with YouTube but don't add it for the other clients? That's an obvious thing, any YouTube client you use will share your IP with YouTube unless you are hiding behind a proxy or VPN, that's how internet works.

RedReader for reddit is missing, though it is a bit obscure but the programmers are privacy conscious and the client doesn't include any kind of telemetry as far as I know.

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Invidious (unless you self-host) is essentially a proxy for YouTube. Looking at its description, Yotter is the same.

(I use Invidious mainly because it doesn't have the insane JS bloat of the official site.)

> Invidious And it skips ads, and if you are playing music on your mobile devices it allows you to turn off the screen and still play music. Invidious and Youtube are both a very good side by side comparison on what a video sharing site ought to be if it s build for user, vs build to extract information from user.
That makes sense for those but they should add the same warning for Fritter and the reddit apps. Consistency is important with these things otherwise they end up making some things look worse than others when they are the same.
RedReader is my favorite