Is there a privacy difference between using a YouTube front-end like NewPipe, LibreTube, or GrayJay vs using a browser like Brave or Firefox with ad blockers like uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and DeArrow?
Is there a privacy difference between using a YouTube front-end like NewPipe, LibreTube, or GrayJay vs using a browser like Brave or Firefox with ad blockers like uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and DeArrow?
It shouldn’t be a difference, what Ublock and Brave and network based blockers such Pihole do is they have a list of domains that are not allowed to load on your system.
If they find that www(dot)adexample(dot)com is trying to load in your browser, they simply block it and the video continue.
Maybe the only different is the privacy itself that offer something like Libretube vs something like YouTube + Ublock. While using Libretube, you are only loading what is neccesary, you are not giving Google more information that you shouldn’t, and while you using YouTube in Firefox for example you are loading all the cookies, trackers and that stuff, even in private browser with maximum privacy settings and adblocker.
The first part is inaccurate. uBlock Origin, Brave Shields, etc. have much more control over the website then network based filters. They can set cookies, block specific cookies, block scripts, modify the html, modify the URL and more. DNS based blockers like Pi-Hole are limited to domain-based blocking.
Thanks for the correction.