They do this every year. It is not related to their recent US politics drama, and its not damage control.

Uruguay and Chile are kinda okay

I don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. I do my best to be as private as possible, but if my work or any other external factor requires me to surrender some data, I will probably end up giving in. And I think that’s okay.

Freetube on desktop, NewPipe on smartphone. And I have no problems with VPNs on both devices!