Hello, while I use frontends where possible in place of the original websites/apps I do find it interesting that some of them, mostly referring to the Youtube ones still allow you to login normally? I understand this is to bypass blocks and that in theory the frontend still tries to limit what it sends back to Google but in practice how does this work without killing the privacy aspect?
I’d say it’s one thing and better to be tracked only at account level than to be tracked at traffic level.
So you know only your history in the site can be used as opposed to any other form of fingerprinting the sites might use at browser, cookies, or ip level.
Corporate app frontends track everything you do and see. They can record your mouse movement and watch it again, they track your scrolls, every button click, and even sometimes what you type in inputs even when you don’t actually save them (like an Instagram comment you decide not to post, or a video search you don’t actually search). There is a lot of tracking done on the frontend. Some of it could also be done in the backend (and a part of that is), some not
