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230.000 Host File Lines with Full Anti-Google.

Hi,

I'm fully DE-GOOGLING myself. Total lock. I need to unlock youtube for my bash script to play it via mpv. Which scripts should I "#" ? Clearly not all of them. Its one giant google host file without separate youtube section, but I only need the ones that will unlock my capabilities to search in bash and play the video via mpv. Any ideas about minimal set?

Thanks in advance if you know, which ones they are.

P.S. I don't cache DNS-es.

Re: 230.000 Host File Lines with Full Anti-Google.

Reply #1 –
Total lock but you still want to connect to youtube. Partial lock imho.

I'm with you though. I try. My personal phone runs lineageos + microg so no google play services. Total lock is very difficult unless you live in a cave or just accept being shut out from many websites (ReCaptcha). They are everywhere.

For youtube I have my own Invidious instance which proxys the videos through a tiny vps in another more privacy friendly country. The vps has other such frontends on it.

I'd recommend Invidious but otherwise iftop can easily show you connections. Close everything else connecting to the internet. Watch a video. Adjust host file to allow what you see. But cross check against one of the adblocking hosts lists and don't enable any domains or ip's that are on that list.

Re: 230.000 Host File Lines with Full Anti-Google.

Reply #3 –
YouTube is owned by Google, if you want to degoogle then surely a better plan is don't use it, watch other video sites. Sure there might be less choice, but there will still be more content than you could ever watch in  a lifetime. If you watch YouTube videos by any means then you are still in the audience and can be psychologically influenced and see paid promotions and things that were sponsored, so you will still be financially supporting Google - your viewing time is the commodity they are selling. Having said that, I don't know any other video platform that enables you to watch foreign language content by using the subtitles and auto translate feature, and some of the search tools on other platforms are useless to the point you can type in the entire name of something you actually know exists and it still refuses to show you it in the results, so the competition has some way to go yet I think.

Re: 230.000 Host File Lines with Full Anti-Google.

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the search tools on other platforms are useless to the point you can type in the entire name of something you actually know exists and it still refuses to show you it in the results

Sound like YouTube.