Watch a 10 second video and YT saves 35 MB of cookies. Wipe cookies and try to open the frontpage: 9 MB of cookies.
Tried Piped, but it saves 12 MB upon watching a video as well.
Invidious doesn't save cookies, but more often than not it only serves "medium" or 720p quality video, unlike Piped.
Why is everything so bloated and awful?
Tried Piped, but it saves 12 MB upon watching a video as well.
Invidious doesn't save cookies, but more often than not it only serves "medium" or 720p quality video, unlike Piped.
Why is everything so bloated and awful?
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@wizardyuuka you can always set your browser to always delete cookies from specific websites like youtube or just use youtube with a private/anonimous tab
@37712 I was already wiping everything on browser closure for several years. YT tracking aside, it's an awful waste of bandwidth to have to download over 30 MB of garbage after closing a browser just to watch a video that's not even 1 MB large. Already got a page redirection userscript to Piped. The other option is mpv + yt-dlp or mps-yt, which can be pretty fast and cozy, but tends to break every so often.
