Videos still get served by youtube. Maybe you know something I don't, but I wouldn't assume this is a way to get absolute anonymity against YT.

Well, I don't know if there's any way to be absolutely anonymous on the internet.

It seems to me that there's still good reason to prefer using invidious on an instance used by many people as opposed to youtube directly. Can't make perfect the enemy of the good.

    Can't make perfect the enemy of the good. 

It's fine to recommend invidious as a safety against what happened in the article. But you should also point out that, by default, the videos are still served by Google and they see (and log) your view.

https://docs.invidious.io/faq/#q-what-data-is-shared-with-yo...

Plus of course

https://docs.invidious.io/faq/#q-what-data-is-collected-by-i...

Yep, you're right, thank you. Definitely be sure to check "proxy videos" in preferences.

An aside on invidious collecting data - I am a lot more comfortable with some random guy in Europe having my data than Google.

How do you propose we watch YouTube videos without getting served by YouTube?

Youtube only sees the Invidious instance, not the end-user clients. That's probably as good as it gets.

Me? I have no such proposal.

There's an option to use Invidious as a proxy, though I don't know if public instances offer this (and you probably need an invidious account).

Public instances do offer this, and there's no need to sign up (I do this on public instances without an invidious account).