That’s because they still have a financial incentive to do so: Google doesn’t offer a fully paid version of their service
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stardust@lemmy.ca 8 months agoThey are still tracking you though. Probably more information since payment information is being provided. Removing ads is a reason to pay for YouTube premium, but it’s not to get less tracking. Less tracking I not the selling point or service offered by YouTube premium.
piekay@feddit.de 8 months ago
fugacity@kbin.social 8 months ago
They're definitely still tracking their premium users, I agree. But my counterpoint is, what business, online or not, doesn't track me? If I go out and buy something at a retail store I'm gonna bet my ass I'm being tracked. If I don't want to be tracked, then I should be making sure information I consider to be sensitive is not being exposed. If there is no reasonable expectation to privacy in the public, then I think it's fit that there's no reasonable expectation to privacy when I'm surfing the internet.
stardust@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
My point is it is pointless to bring up tracking into the discussion, since it’s not a benefit of the service. The YouTube premium feature can’t be used without an account so provides more tracking with account data and payment information being provided.
Read the comment I responded to. They said YouTube premium provides them with less incentive to track them. I’m informing them that is not the benefit of paying for YouTube premium.
fugacity@kbin.social 8 months ago
In a sense I agree with that piekay though. If they can't serve me targeted ads on YouTube they lose that money trying to develop technology to track me in that regard. How much money that is I guess is hard to say, since the tracking on YouTube certainly can carry over to other parts of Alphabet.
stardust@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I’m not sure how having a paid account is supposed to lead to less tracking when the algorithm meant to push viewers into a viewing loop is made possible by tracking. Accounts with more information make for more useful demographic data.
Not having ads is a benefit of YouTube premium, but less tracking is not a benefit when there is a reason to track even without ads. For better products and surveillance. There is less reasons to not track.