You can use something like GrayJay to watch YT and other sources (and have offline playlists and subscriptions) without a google account whatsoever. That helped me make the jump to fully degoogle.
The lack of a “cross-platform” (for lack of a better term) account is why I don’t use things like GrayJay because I watch on different devices and want to ensure they all have similar recommendations and a watch history.
I use SmartTube next on tv like 80% of the time I watch YouTube.
I’ll admit I’m having trouble moving from yt to peertube :/ and still use the old gmail accounts
You can use something like GrayJay to watch YT and other sources (and have offline playlists and subscriptions) without a google account whatsoever. That helped me make the jump to fully degoogle.
The lack of a “cross-platform” (for lack of a better term) account is why I don’t use things like GrayJay because I watch on different devices and want to ensure they all have similar recommendations and a watch history.
I use SmartTube next on tv like 80% of the time I watch YouTube.
PT, nebula, loops, odysee, and floatplane together can’t fill the yt content gap.
You can start with moving to newpipe/grayjay and curate your own content which will lower your surface area.
At some point YT will manage to widevine and we’ll be torrenting the best of that shit.
Ahead of the curve, already downloaded all of the greats onto my selfhosted storage.