You said somewhere else that you don't use android. Cromite is exclusive to android due to how iOS restricts browsers.

iOS forces all apps to use WebKit as a browser engine (though that might change soon in the EU), so you don't really get much better than Safari / Brave on iOS.

is it on pc and or mac?

i dont mind temporary profiles. it has a permenate profile that i cant get away from ( i want google (and other services) to think im a different person when i change my idenity in tor which is what i thought would happen

i dont watch videos on youtube on linux anymore i watch youtube through invidious on tor. i clear my idenity. I go to a different device, ios, normal guy safari, go to invidious, the videos are there too. if google can do it through invidious its realistick to assume it can through any website. thanks for the resources though )

According to the repo, it's available on Linux and Windows.

Would you mind sharing screenshots (or at the very least name specific examples)?

What you're describing is technologically and financially infeasible for Google to do at scale (or even to one specific person). If Google were able to track you that well, they wouldn't modify the recommendations for you, they would quietly add it to an ad profile on you. The only reason the YouTube algorithm exists is to keep people on the platform for longer, when you use invidious, you are losing YouTube money, so they have no financial incentive to modify their algorithm for you.

If you're using a small few person instance, then what you watch can actually influence the recommendations (at least until the token rotates), but that isn't Google tracking you specifically. If you use a more popular instance (like nerdvpn or nadeko) what you watch will do little to influence the front page algorithm.

As I mentioned in my previous comment, I'd suggest you look into how the various privsec technologies you're using actually work, and also look at how companies are actually able to track you. If you just assume a company can do something because they're big, powerful, and scary, suddenly the company seems much bigger, more powerful, and scary than they really are. It's also important to remember that just because something can be used to correlate activity with the user doing, that doesn't mean it's something that can be done at scale.

Judging from your previous posts and comments, it sounds like you're quite new to privacy. This kind of mentality (in one form or another) is very common amongst people who are new to caring about their privacy. Surveillance has been happening for your entire life, so it's not going to hurt to take a bit to think about things with a clearer head. Of course, if you're in a situation where lack of privacy might cause physical harm, find help ASAP, but generally you can take things at a slower pace to help on the long run. That's not to say stop caring at all, but you don't need to suddenly drop everything and move to a bunker in the woods. Too much change at once can lead to privacy fatigue, which only makes it less likely that you'll escape any of the surveillance of the modern world.

If you disable local routing then it shouldn't be an issue. You could test this by pinging local machines

thanks for the advice man :)

idk how to clean metadata reliably yet but heres what i see: Vox, Markiplier, someordanairygamers, penguinz0, firship, thehatedone, mentaloutlaw

do these show up for you?

Yeah, that's generally what most invidious pages look like. Some lean much more into political news, but otherwise it's generally those guys.

I'm not as good as you so i can't give you better solutions, but, just so you know, you're still more private than a lot of people, me included, you dont have to feel bad, you did a lot of progress there

thanks for the reassurance ik im more private than your average joe but it is really sad when i get a thing that promises ill be safer from google but i go back to google and they still know its me. have a good night/day friend )

idk i get recommended them only after i actually watch them. ive never got recommended markiplier until i started watching hids videos

honesty is cool 👍

On inv.nadeko.net what you listed is almost exactly what the front page looks like.

If you're getting the recommendations on the front page, it's likely the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. When you watch a video, the side bar recommendations are based on the video you're currently watching though. There are instances like invidious.nerdvpn.de that disable the homepage if you'd prefer.

idk bro i was watching a generic roblox brainrot video (trying to test if google thinks its me) and got recommneded chess vids from a speific channel i faked an interest in months ago. if i cover the recommendations it wont be private or convient since i use them to check if google tracking works and i like having new vids to watch without having to look for them but i dont want companies to connect everything i do together (

IMO, I think you're being a little paranoid (I say as someone who was extremely paranoid when they first started getting into privacy). Take a bit of time to look into what is actually possible and how you can properly protect yourself, and hopefully that can put your mind at ease.

I don't mean to say all your fears are unfounded, or to just stop caring about your privacy and focus on learning, but taking a few days or weeks to understand better what Google (or any other company) is truly capable of will probably be better for you in the long run. You should also consider your threat model and what you're willing to give up (if anything) in order to live a more private life. If you have to watch YouTube, Google will always have some sort of data, but it is possible to remove most (if not all) connections to you.

ok thanks for the advice i admit im a bit crazy. thanks for the optimism too