You realize Google owns YouTube, right? 😆
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corbin@infosec.pub 10 months agoYouTube doesn’t sell user data, the data is for targeting ads.
Antitrust7668@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
corbin@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Google owns YouTube and the AdSense advertising network. They don’t need to sell the data to advertisers because they are the advertiser. It’s more valuable for them to just hoard that for forever and use it for ad targeting.
spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Auli@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Sure and Google is not a data broker. Look at how good uses your data they are transparent about it.
powerful_peanut@lemmy.world 10 months ago
the linked article doesn’t describe getting data from Google, but getting data from grindr and other apps. Grindr is notorious for this kind of thing and makes it easy to locate users…in fact its the main feature of the app so its impossible to fix.
There are different levels of privacy. Many of the issues with Google are theoretical or philosophical, but location broadcasting apps like grindr are clear and present dangers to your privacy.