Privacy – Kristell's Commonplace

The Final Boss of De-Googling: YouTube Alternatives

Kristell August 14, 2025 August 14, 2025 Macroposting

I’ve spent a long time De-Googling my life, and YouTube was, for a long time, the final piece holding onto me. In honor of YouTube’s AI age verification systems, let’s talk about how I’ve been removing it from my life. To emphasize: These are not YouTube frontends. Any traffic to …

Kristell August 14, 2025 August 14, 2025 Microposting

So for anyone else who’s weird about privacy, there’s an adblock list that you can use in your linux hosts file. It also works for things like AdAway and Pihole, but I’m just shocked they made a host file version. Either way, here it is: https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists?tab=readme-ov-file#ultimate