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I don't wish to be tracked by Google.

If I paid for YouTube Premium then I voluntarily provide even more tracking data to Google. If they offered an ad free tier where you weren't tracked then I would pay for it.

Since Google don't respect people's right to privacy or to watch content ad free I don't pay them and instead use ad blockers locally and pay for a proxy server with ad blocking DNS.




If you don’t want to be tracked, you have to stop using YouTube. Your ad blocker does nothing to prevent tracking - Google can see what you’re doing because it’s their servers. It only helps on other third-party sites.




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