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This is even more true if you subscribe to channels using rss feeds from invidious, then simply use yt-dlp to grab the video directly from the URL. You also can use the noscript extension to selectively block the google video script and instead use yt-dlp to download the video. Using this over a no logging VPN like Mullvad prevents google from tracking your IP. Finally yt-dlp not only allows for use with invidious, but has a sponsorblock flag, which will cut out the mentions of sponsors in the video and then paste it back together, essentially autoskipping the sponsor mentions.
On Android, you can download an app from FDroid called Seal that basically uses yt-dlp, and can be customized to use the same flags.
Same. Librewolf and Mullvad browsers FTW. Librewolf comes with Ublock Origin and turns off a lot of privacy invasive configuration flags by default.
Combine this with awesome extensions like NoScript (ublock can also block JS, but I like NoScript’s interface better), and Chameleon (spoof your user agent string) and you’re good. Add on LibRedirect to redirect you to alternative front ends like Invidious, Libreddit, Bitter, Scribe, and also paste in a Bypass Paywalls script into Ublock’s filter list, and yeah…there’s a LOT of options to give the middle finger to advertisers, I mean, just look into using yt-dlp with YouTube sponsor block, and you can go far with this.