That's how you do it! Fantastic setup you have, mine is only slightly different:
0% Twitter
Mullvad VPN
Have TOR browser ready if needed
If practical, use a different browser sometimes
Newpipe for YT on Android
I have reduced my digital advertising exposure to a minimum - very liberating 🤓:
- no more linear TV and no more commercials for years
- switched from Google Android to nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5 - no more mobile operating system tracking, no more Google data mining for ads in God mode
- switched from Google Chrome to Brave Browser (mobile/PC) / Vanadium => cookie tolerance and tracking in settings reduced as far as possible
- watch YouTube only via Brave Browser => blocks all advertising
- Accounts for all meta products deleted and apps removed (Whatsapp, FB, Insta)
- Checked all Android apps for trackers and permissions on https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
=> deleted many apps & open accounts in browser only, because almost all apps track in order ro sell data to multiple data brokers
- switched to privacy email services nostr:npub1s0lcehg2nx2ps6sl33pjy6vaxqmm600tkxladd20wk49j9w98keqfq33wr
and nostr:npub1mea2vwcu06qf7e4x00wd902vj54qnn2jacq76ldntrgfhtvhlpqqrvqane to avoid email tracking
- use hide-my-email aliases from nostr:npub1mea2vwcu06qf7e4x00wd902vj54qnn2jacq76ldntrgfhtvhlpqqrvqane for commercial burner log-ins
- Social media 90% Nostr / 10% X (twitter only in browser)
- only in-podcast and in-video advertising from content creators remain. Understand that they do it for monetization, but I always fast forward. Sorry, not sorry.
- I send V4V for pods that are V4V only
Our podcast nostr:npub1n0devk3h2l3rx6vmt24a3lz4hsxp7j8rn3x44jkx6daj7j8jzc0q2u02cy is Value 4 Value only. It works without advertising.
Be the change you want to see!
Discussion
Does your Newpipe also regularly refuse to playback videos since one of two months? It's really starting to be annoying... 🤬
I use Brave to play YT videos. It works as long as I don't open videos via links posted in other apps, e.g. from Telegram. Once I use a YT link forwarded from another app, it requires a YT log in and won't play the video. Solution: close brave session (delete session history if not done automatically), use new VPN location (change IP address) and search video in brave/YT directly. Maybe it's the same with Newpipe.
Thanks, will try changing VPN location