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When regular users visit youtube.com, they get a page with some videos on it. Regardless of whether they're logged in or not, there are videos there.

Banned users visiting youtube.com will just get a text page[0] with zero video content. Google will use all the dirty tracking tricks to make sure that banned users remain banned even when their IP or device changes.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/qTTGhhG.png

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Incognito window, different browser, clear cookies... any of these will make you look like a new user to youtube. Just don't sign in of course.

I stopped signing in when they broke Gmail on Firefox. Now I just use Chromium as my mail browser and everything else is on my secure browser.

Please, do you know how to get banned from Google? I'd love to not be tracked by them anymore.

Open an Adsense account and click your own ads. Though I'd think these days it just bans you from the Adsense program.

Why am I getting down voted for asking an honest question?

Didn't he just described that they were in fact heavily tracking you in order to make sure you didn't see the content?

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