Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoUnfortunately that fee won’t stop google’s endless thirst for data mining and it’s manipulation through “personalized recommendations”, and through ads on any other website and mobile apps.
thesmokingman@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
If you care about that you don’t use YouTube at all or support creators that do. Even using 3rd party apps or services feeds into that. This feels like a serious non sequitur on any thread about any Google product.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Unfortunately that’s not an option. Youtube she’s not only host “fun” videos, bit repair videos, learning materials and even university course leaning materials, none of them to be found elsewhere.
thesmokingman@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
There is literally no way to opt out of Google’s data collection if you are going to use their products. Using another frontend shifts the data profile but it still exists and provides value to them. It’s reasonable to say it’s a bad thing. It’s unreasonable to say there are no other ways. I grew up in a public library and I can still get most of the information I need from a public library without Google products (things I can’t get usually come through inter-library loan or direct connections with subject matter experts at, say, a maker space). This seems to be less of “I’m against invasive corporations” and more of a “I don’t like the solutions available to avoid invasive corporations.”
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I wouldn’t care if they would only keep aggregate statistics, not stats about individual users, and when watching through a public frontend my usage blends in with that of many other people.