Submitted 2 months ago by snek_boi@lemmy.ml to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJf4SNuDnoI
Why do this? Because surveillance capitalism wants you to be less free. It wants you to be glued to the screen. It wants you to buy whatever advertisers want you to buy. But you can fight back by deliberately poisoning your data.
What’s the tl;dr for people that don’t want to navigate to YouTube?
Don’t engage with algorithms, especially ones trying to sell things, like major corporate social media.
Pretend to be something you’re not, especially vulnerable targeted populations. This lowers their ability easily target minorities.
Pretend to be something you’re not
In my life, I was Noel Gruber who worked at Taco Bell in Uranium City, Saskatchewan. But in my dreams I played a different role. I was Monique Gibeau in post-war France! A hooker, with a heart of black charcoal.
So the fact that I occasionally get ads in Spanish, despite being a native-English speaker in a mainly English-speaking country, means I’m doing something right?
If you’re on android, you can use an app like NewPipe to view YouTube content without actually going to YouTube. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe
On a browser, you can use an invidious instance like https://yewtu.be. That also lets you view YouTube content ad free without signing in.
I read “if you’re An android”, and was very confused for a second.
Pipepipe supersedes newpipe doesn’t it? That’s what I’m using anyhow.
invidious instances never work for me, but with this one i could get further than ever, but when trying to play a video i get this error: “The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.”
what could this be?
Doesn’t work when using a vpn
I second this. If you get a response can you please let me know?
Best I can do is AI generated transcript: pastes.io/if-i-told-
But the video has boobies… /s
I wonder if you could make a self-hostable data poisoning automation utility. Put in a bunch of credentials for various social media sites, and it creates unintelligible usage patterns associated with your online identities. Not so much for poisoning training of generative AI, but for destroying any internal profiles any party might attempt to build on you by correlating your online behaviour.
Sounds like that alternative to Ublock that I can’t think of the name of right now that not only blocks ads but also gives a click-through input to every single one, poisoning any ad metrics for the ads as well as any targeted ad profiling on you.
janeway: “get on it”
“fight back against surveillance capitalism and malicious advertisers by watching this youtube video”
Get a load of this! Can’t make this stuff up…
You gotta meet the people where they’re at to get them informed. If this information was hidden away in some privacy/security-centered blog, a fraction as many people would see it.
I know, I was just pointing out the irony that youtube is one of the primary offenders of surveillance capitalism
Indeed, it is quite ironic, as another commenter said.
I wish the fediverse would get a wider user base, like loops and peertube. The more people use it, the more viable it will be as an alternative.
The irony in this being a youtube link though
People using YouTube need this info more than people using PeerTube.
True, just thought it was funny.
No one knows other video sharing sites exist
It’s ok though. Using MPV to watch YouTube is a good way to stick it to the man
YouTube keeps showing me ads for surrogacy (as in, being a surrogate), which could not be more the opposite of what I want to do in life. Obviously they know I am a woman of childbearing age, but somewhere the algorithm got me very wrong. I just let the ads play though, to let them think the idea doesn’t repulse me beyond anything I can imagine.
I watch a lot of YouTube and I haven’t gotten around to figuring out the ad blocker situation on my phone.
yeah it kinda makes me happy when the ads are wrong and I sure don’t want to correct my profile.
Lol the algorithms are lost on me. I don’t even do much to avoid it, I’m just weird as fuck!
There’s no reason to over complicate this. Set boundaries with yourself. Set a budget, cut up your credit cards, try the envelope system.
I agree that doing less can achieve certain goals.
I guess it depends on what your goal is.
If you want to avoid getting glued to the screen and being influenced by advertisements, your recommendations are spot on.
However, if you want to make it costlier for surveillance capitalism to entrance everyone, then other options might make more sense.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s not poison. Thats helping them profile you. 🤔
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How does it poison their data to share your honest preferences with them? Doesn’t that give them the most accurate dossier possible so they can hit you with ads that micro-target your interests?
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 months ago
yeah this is not what poison means to me. to me poisoning is giving them false information when they ask you for it.
slemptastrophe@piefed.social 2 months ago
I’m an amateur photographer and I post my work online sometimes. How can I use this on my photo? Can you share any links to tools and tutorials?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m not sure if this is still working or not. They also mention glaze. nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Like the most annoying webpage from the old Internet?
web.archive.org/web/20030402051520/http://…/v1/
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pffffft.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve gotten a lot out of YouTube by leafing through the recommendations on videos that I liked and saving any promising ones to ‘watch later’ playlists by topic. I have a couple dozen of such playlists, each with multiple dozens of videos. Could live off these for a year at least.
Of course, as mentioned, this is the opposite of poisoning the data.
Zacryon@feddit.org 2 months ago
Nope. It just started another arms race.