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I would say air on the side of caution. I don’t use any google services outside of YouTube so me getting my account banned would cost me nothing. I personally wouldn’t be hurt at all if my account was banned.
If you live in google world and suddenly and irrevocably losing all your google accounts/access/data would be painful you should go with a VPN. Google is a private company where you have no rights to appeal.
Lastly if you do live in google world you should consider getting out. Don’t let mega companies run your life by fear nor allure.
Edit: Don’t use free VPNs. If you are not paying you are the product.
You don't actually get banned, they just don't let you watch youtube videos until you turn off your adblocker. You can even sign out and never see the ad block blocks because its tied to your account only.
True but we don’t know what google does to accounts that are bulk download videos from their platform for offline viewing. It’s definitely against the terms of service.
Jup, that is precisely what I meant and why I advocate for people to be cautious, if they use their Google account for more things than just YouTube.
I'm in the process of degoogeling my live. I've never used it much, but my phone and the apps that I've bought over the years are tied to my account. I still use the calendar and have been to lazy to switch. Google maps too is a big plus. I've already gotten rid of cloud storage, as I selfhost nextcloud.
I use airvpn, which is recommended now as mullvad got rid of port forwarding.
It’s rough in some spots but doable. If you are looking for search replacement I found that paying for Kagi was the only way to go. Unlike DuckDuckGo and Bing it does not suck. I’m convinced the reason is because they don’t try to sell you ads.
Kagi was somewhat expensive, if I recall. 10 bucks for unlimited searches put me off, as I don't have a lot of money right now...
I'm not sure how using a VPN would help in this situation if you are concerned about having your YouTube account banned? Would you being using that VPN while signed out and with cookies/site data cleared?
That would be the case, since tubearchivist requires no account and runs on my server, so no cookies as well.
WDYM "block your account" exactly?
You're being paranoid. Google isn't going to dick around blocking individuals.
They might do it, but there could also be a cost to Google if they started banning people's accounts based on uncertain behavioural metrics. I expect it would at least be a while before they'd go that far. But a VPN can't hurt.
I don't think they would block your account, I think they would just block all youtube downloading methods at some point. I use mpv with yt-dlp to watch youtube and it sometimes breaks. I don't think a vpn would help in any way.
I can't see Google doing this.
Didn't read your whole post... But have you tried tubesync? It's similar to tubearchvist if I recall.
I have not and I'll look into it tomorrow. Thanks!