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uBlock and youtube-dl is the poor mans alternative. But I suppose it will not work so well on a phone.

Ask HN: How can I protect myself from Referer tracking?

I use uBlock, Privacy Badger and NoScript in Firefox in an attempt to keep away ads, trackers and malicious scripts.But when I check the network traffic, I see that it still sends the Referer and the Origin headers to the massive amounts of CDNs, mostly .googleapis.com, .gstatic.com and their army of bloat.Google seem to put the cache headers already expired to make sure that it is notified on...

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