Mainly to avoid using YouTube and the mess of that interface. All i need is a chronoligical feed of the channels I like. I’m not overly concerned that they can associate my IP with some viewing activity. As long as there are multiple people in the household using YouTube, it’s not a given they know who’s watching what. Also it’s much easier to have multiple invidious profiles and use them with Firefox containers than it is to have multiple YouTube accounts and switch between them.

https://docs.invidious.io/youtube-errors-explained

Running a remote instance without some sort of IP rotation became infeasible. I’ve been running it locally since google started actively trying to kill invidious. The only reason that still works is because they want to avoid collateral damage that could affect other people in the household.

https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-bcachefs/

For those of us that are out of the loop.

It’s high school level drama. Competent adults will work it out.

“The report detailed how the user managed to leak DNS queries when disabling and enabling VPN while having “Block connections without VPN” on.”

Not to diminish the severity of the issue but I can’t imagine this being the factor that pushes the average person to ios over android.