Rob299 - she/her

experimenting with identifying as nonbinary/~she/her he aromantic

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  • Hey thanks for responding. I submitted a post about it in more detail.

    For a quick summary this, is ideally and particularly how I was planning for communities to work on Peertube.

    What they ideally would do.

    Act like public playlist, where any one can add their video to the community, possibly with an optional approval list.

    Approved/submited videos should show in chronological order of the submitted video, not the original video upload date.

    Communities would be managed by the specific dedicated server that created them.

    What Peertube communities ideally should not do:

    Change where (hosted instance) the video is hosted, except when necessary, such as backup or otherwise.












  • So device id is one piece of the puzzle, among other ways of getting your location and address.

    However with that in mind here is why I would particularly try to hide the device id.

    It never changes, your IP address can change based off of the network you are on which is particularly good for cellular connection. However using a VPN is still better.

    To my knowledge they couldn’t just get your location form device id itself, however device id and IP address are part of the collection they are aiming to grab. As I said, if you forget to check if your VPN is on, then they can collect your IP address/location separately from your device id.

    Do cover up anything and everything you can. Not because it gives additional info, but every new thing is just another piece of the equation.


  • I mean, in what context. Are you trying to to make sure they don’t know its you using their apps or services? Or just in general wondering if you should hide your device id. If you aren’t hiding anything illegal, while using a VPN device I.d wouldn’t really help them much. If you are using modified apps to access services. In a case like this, for instance with Disney+ or Netflix, apps could figure your device id and then the second you mess up and are connected to their apps and your VPN is off then they can then connect the real IP address with that device id.

    Overall For privacy protection you should 100% spoof your device id. However if you aren’t doing anything illegal particularly modding official apps, or using such modifications. You might not need to spoof the device id, and a VPN alone might still be enough anyways as long that it is a trusted VPN, don’t just use any make sure you know that you can trust the VPN host provider.







  • If you are concerned of the possibility of a bot being among other users that has no been deleted what I would suggest is. Get into less popular and less documented videos topics and their comment sections.

    Idk what you are searching for but the more specific a video is to a genre or video topic will certainly throw off an ai chat bot. They’ll eventually say the wrong thing. What you do then is see if they bother correcting themselves or do they keep using the same answer in responses. You’l know its a bot because in more niche topic a real person would be more dedicated into saying the right things.

    Linux is well documented but how documented is Palemoon browser compared to Firefox for example. The more specific you get the easier it will be to know if it’s an ai bot. If you talk about everyday topics the ai is always being trained on user generated content. It gets harder to tell.