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What is there to terminate if you browse Youtube without signing in?
Your accounts? As if they don't know who you are when you're not signed in.
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What is there to terminate if you browse Youtube without signing in?
It may not apply to this particular implementation, but users who've downloaded alternative YT clients (which offer ad-free experiences, or playback while the screen is off) an Android devices, may have their Google account flagged, even if the apps were sideloaded.
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Why should he? It‘s your choice to use it or not. If you feel uncomfortable, go and selfhost it. Or don‘t use it at all. But there is no reasoning to prohibit it for everyone.
Altruistically, it trains users that it is ok, which it isn't. Selfishly, the author really does not want to be storing or even handling these kinds of credentials. It makes them a very juicy target for all kinds of bad actors. Imagine finding yourself in the middle of some kind of account hijacking nightmare that you have unwittingly enabled, having to deal with people who trusted you and have lost access to their a…
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This is not true. They can and will suspend your accounts for blocking ads or not being "Economically viable". One reason I removed youtube vanced and reinstalled official youtube app.
Hmm. The reason doesn't look immediately obvious to me. What does your switching from Vanced to the official yt app have to do with someone's account getting suspended? Care to expand on it?
maximum resolution in Invidious is 720p even 1080p is supported when goes to youtube. Are there some technical limitations?
You can watch 1080p if you set "dash" as your default quality in preferences, or by adding `&quality=dash` to the end of a video URL. The reason it isn't enabled by default is that it requires proxying streams, which is more bandwidth intensive[0]. 0. https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/issues/34
maximum resolution in Invidious is 720p even 1080p is supported when goes to youtube. Are there some technical limitations?
How does the audiomode work? I tried playing a video and the backround and it doesn’t seem to continue streaming. Is it because i’m on IOS?
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Your accounts? As if they don't know who you are when you're not signed in.
Well, if you can imagine that there is a world where people can use the same device in the same home to access videos (ever heard of families?), surely you can imagine that Google would not terminate all accounts used on that device because they have no clue who is watching what when they are not logged in.