How to prevent YouTube from tracking you when you lurk Q Research
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Install uBlock Origin if you haven't already.
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Right-click on a YT video, "Block Element"
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A box to create custom filter will appear in the bottom right. Replace everything after the "vi/" with an asterisks. (pic related)
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Click create.
This will prevent your browser from contacting YouTube's image servers to retrieve thumbnail images. They can watch to see what IPs retrieve a specific set of thumbnails in short succession to ID anons.