The IP address is shared between all people who connect to the same VPN server.
The IP address is shared between all people who connect to the same VPN server.
Well, you can change your IP as often as you want. You can go to a completely different ISP in a different country in a matter of seconds.
So if you are using one tool to access YouTube while being logged into Google on your browser, doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the VPN?
Yeah, I didn’t assume anyone in this community would log in to YouTube, but maybe I’m wrong
Personally I run everything behind a VPN. Browsing the web without one kinda feels like a bad idea, like why should I expose my approximate home location to every website I go to and every server I connect to? Why should I let my ISP see which websites I’m visiting? And why should I trust my government to have access to all of that data?
the only affected IPs are of Invidious instances
That’s not true, I just got a “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message on the official fucking YouTube website using Firefox behind Mullvad VPN. It’s also very common to see this on Piped instances. The invidious team seems to have developed a fix though: https://github.com/iv-org/youtube-trusted-session-generator
Corporations steal from us all the time, and they don’t even let us buy their content, they only sell limited access that can be revoked at any time (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/9531016 or https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12904663). Under these circumstances, there are no ethical issues with piracy.