Guys do you have a the solution or soewhere better to post this? i only found 3 privacy communties but most of the other ones are just privacy news (i hate news)

(this is my first post im new) ive noticed something no one seems to have a problem with. do you have this problem to? am i just doing something wrong?

i use a privacy friendly browser plus a privacy friendly os and use fingerprint spoofer/blocker. i watch videos on invidious. i noticed that the “popular” tab shows videos related to videos i watched before. even if i clear my cookies, or change my idenity in (offiscial) tor browser i still get recommended related videos meaning no matter what i do google knows what i watch. whats worse, if i go on invidious on a totally different device with a normal broswer normal os, i get the same videos. meaning websites know what videos i watch across multiple sessions but also multiple devices. im sick of this. it feels like i’ve tried everything, sacrificed so much connivence but no results.

(this isn’t a question spefecifically about youtube google or invindious just how to get webisites to stop knowing everything i do across multiple identities and every device i use)

Things I tried

*Proton vpn+librewolf(max security according to settings)+nosircpt+Ublock(with the filters it comes with)+ officisal recommended invidious instances+Quad9 via settings

*Tails+Tor browser(max security settings apprentaly)+default bridge+no javascirpt+fingerprint spoofing estendsion+bluetooth disabled by tails+all the previous mentioned (exculding vpn i heard its risky)+invidious again (Tails doesn’t work well for me the police are not after me and it takes so long to start and presisent stoarage is annoying)

*Qubes+Whonix vm+Tor browser(max again)+no javascript (I love and hate qubes from my first impression it meets my security needs and you can run any os in a vm on it but i wish it just worked. theres a steep learning curve and my hardware isn’t the best for it)

No results on any of these just slower internet and some websites are broken. Its just like using a normal browser that tracks you but slow as a privacy one. im getting tired of this. i use all this super deep level paranoid overkill stufff and nothing happens. like im burning my house to get rid of a spider but the spider is still there

possible causes

-google wireless access point (does qubes/whonix/tor NOT protect against this at all??) (also my family HATES any changes or mild inconveniences)

-i logged in to google without a vpn **ONCE **does this automatically doom you forever **even ** if you change os and browser and device?

-hardware is framework laptop

for clairtiy

I am not -a criminal -a journalist -a gooner -willing to go off grid in the woods I am -creeped out -tired -about to give up

My privacy goals

-be able to actually cut ties with my shadow profile and have websites not know everything ive done in my life -control what data brokers and compaines knsw -not have any website at all know every device i use -be able to use any network safely

I feel like giving up on privacy because nothing seems to work. the only results I get is slower more broken internet

  • Waterpumpee@lemmus.org
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    15 days ago

    Can you try without using your wifi? Like connect with mobile wifi to rule the google access point out. Obviously new session etc.

    Edit: another thing that comes to my mind is; how does this popular overview work in invidious? Does this come from invidious or from google? Could it be that there are so few users with invidious that basically all your views are their most popular ones?

    Even if it comes from google, fetched by invidious, they prolly have a unique fingerprint themselves. Thus google knows what invidious’ users like ;)

    You could test this theory by asking someone else (different household) to check the overview content.

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      15 days ago

      idk i get recommended the videos i watch on invidious on youtube as well. also its weird every invidious user likes the exact videos and channels i like at the exact time i watch them. (like meaning having an interest in not the actually website interaction) thanks for your comment though ill test it on my frind but i hope he lets me and doesnt think im weird for not wanting to play banban but i think my worst fears will be confrimed

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        15 days ago

        How do you get videos recommended on youtube, not logged in and fresh session? On a fresh session it’s a wasteland for me. Zero recommendations. Nearly empty site.

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          15 days ago

          not youtube, invidious. its a frontend that shows youtube videos.

          useualy youtube hides that it knows its me until the second video then its very clear. it (youtube) even shows me videos i watched in invidious (qubes+whonix+tor+anti-fingerprint)