Dealing with outbound analytics

[Null]

I'd like to deal with two things:

• Outbound clicks with kiwifarms.net referrals allowing trannies to track where traffic is coming from, and
• Analytics collected by YouTube from embedded media.

There are various anonymizing websites, but are there any similar services for YouTube iframes?

 

[dumbledore]

https://invidious.io/ allows embeeding, and strips content from analytics and shit like that, can also act like a proxy but its not a requirement. Can be easily selfhosted.

Example: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Q10tVT5aF2Y

https://yewtu.be/embed/Q10tVT5aF2Y

https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped same benefits as above, also easily selfhostable.

Example: https://piped.video/watch?v=Q10tVT5aF2Y
https://piped.video/embed/Q10tVT5aF2Y

 

[Whatevermancer]

Outbound clicks with kiwifarms.net referrals allowing trannies to track where traffic is coming from

Isn't there a property on the <a> element, I think it was

<a rel="noreferrer" href="...">...</a>

Or are you talking about something else?

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

<a rel="noreferrer" href="...">...</a>

I think you can also do this but I don't know if that messes with CDN and Sneedchat's security policies.

<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer">

I think you can also set the policy dynamically for each link via javascript.

 

[Null]

okay gimmie sec.

What is my referrer?

Find out the website that referred you here. What does your Referrer HTTP header say?

www.whatismybrowser.com

 

[Sultan Bin Jewstar]

https://invidious.io/ allows embeeding, and strips content from analytics and shit like that, can also act like a proxy but its not a requirement. Can be easily selfhosted.

Example: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Q10tVT5aF2Y

https://yewtu.be/embed/Q10tVT5aF2Y

https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped same benefits as above, also easily selfhostable.

Example: https://piped.video/watch?v=Q10tVT5aF2Y
https://piped.video/embed/Q10tVT5aF2Y

The lead developer is part of the problem

 

[Null]

The lead developer is part of the problem

I hope he has fun knowing he's helping Kiwi Farms.

 

[Sultan Bin Jewstar]

Oo-wat do you mean... Helping zisssss... Kiwifarms?
Sacre Bleu!

 

[xn--mck1c]

For IFrames in general:
MDN

The HTMLIFrameElement.referrerPolicy property reflects the HTML referrerpolicy attribute of the <iframe> element defining which referrer is sent when fetching the resource.

no-referrer:
The Referer header will be omitted entirely. No referrer information is sent along with requests.

For links in general:
MDN
>I think you can also set the policy dynamically for each link via javascript.
Works with http headers too:

The Referrer-Policy HTTP header controls how much referrer information (sent with the Referer header) should be included with requests. Aside from the HTTP header, you can set this policy in HTML.

I think you can also do this but I don't know if that messes with CDN and Sneedchat's security policies.

Ignore local links (and more importantly, images):

same-origin
Send the origin, path, and query string for same-origin requests. Don't send the Referer header for cross-origin requests.

 

[AgendaPoster]

Achievement unlocked!
Congrats @dumbledore

 

[1962s Godzilla]

Always used invidious for keeping out views to lolcows, also not giving data to troons is a must

 

[Null]

Always used invidious for keeping out views to lolcows, also not giving data to troons is a must

I saw that gross breadtuber troon bragging about getting 100 views from the forum and I was like

immediate action required

 

[Lupin The Turd]

Erm, in English, Einstein?

 

[Null]

Erm, in English, Einstein?

less tracking

 

[quaawaa]

The lead developer is part of the problem
View attachment 5558756

The furry troon has only been a contributor since 2021 and has written a tiny fraction of the amount of code that the original dev did:

Source (Archive)

 

[seri0us]

Thanks, I have a browser extension to redirect all YouTube links to invidious instances but it's never completely worked right with embedded videos. Good to see this in-site and working for everybody.

 

[Stalphos Johnson]

I'm having an issue where every video on a page autoplays on both LibreWolf and Brave. I have automatic autoplay disabled on both browsers. Is this a problem with Invidious embeds? Also, when I'm loading a page with multiple videos, I get a Error 429 for most videos. I'm guessing this is from the Invidious instance the forum is using, but it makes it an issue browsing a thread with a lot of Youtube uploads. Otherwise, I appreciate the change.

 

[Null]

Can you screenshot your issue? I am using Brave and LibreWolf and I do not get the problem.

 

[ScatmansWorld]

It might be a good idea to keep track of the invidious repository from now on, since there will doubtlessly be bad actors who try to sabotage it and/or KF through it.

 

[1962s Godzilla]

Thanks, I have a browser extension to redirect all YouTube links to invidious instances but it's never completely worked right with embedded videos. Good to see this in-site and working for everybody.

What's this extension called? I just manually use yewtube