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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Ah, yeah that’s what I figured.

    Unfortunately, (or fortunately for me) I have not used YouTube in a traditional way in a very long time. I use FreeTube, Piped, Invidious, NewPipe, VueTube depending on the platform I currently am. And that is why I don’t have any cookies for it. I don’t really care for liking or commenting the videos as just watching them. All the above mentioned programs support own “offline” subscription lists, and most have interest-based profiles which you cannot achieve with a traditional YouTube account.

    But yeah, sadly this not for me in its current form, I will join whoever added a comment here earlier about waiting for support of json - based subscription lists - that is, of course, if you decide to go that route, or at least as bare minimum if you could remove the cookie requirement and have “anonymous search and view” functionality. I believe many of us here on Lemmy that are concerned about privacy will greatly appreciate that. YouTube itself, mpv, and yt-dlp don’t really need cookies to watch a video.

    Thanks for troubleshooting this with me.