Today I learned about hooktube

Hooktube

Hooktube is a "simple" app that rips a video from youtube, to display it on their own interface.
Now you might not see what the point of this would be, why not watch the video directly on youtube, and that is why this is clever.
Watching the video on hooktube does not record that you watched the video, so you can avoid to associate the videos you watch with your account
also they are largely ad-free (I think so at least since it seems they rip the mp4 file from youtube and just play that).

Another good point for watching through hooktube would be the fact that you will get the recommended videos everybody else on the site will get, since
there is no way to construct a bubble on any particular user when there is no data to build the bubble from.

and any youtube video can be made into a hooktube video by replace youtube.com with hooktube.com