YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues::Ad blockers are firewalls for our sanity – turning them off is madness

  • Bri Guy
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    1 year ago

    Google in general doesn’t give a flying fuck about your privacy

    EDIT: actually, they do care so much about it being shared with them :P

    • BombOmOm
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      1 year ago

      Yep, it is one of the main reasons I have been switching away from Google products. Proton Mail for email, for example. I have no desire to give Google every detail of what I do online.

  • InfiniteGlitch
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    171 year ago

    Does this surprise anyone?

    I don’t think any big corporate company cares about your privacy at all. They just want revenue.

  • @linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    Google was founded to sell your private data for money to pay for services you want. It’s just taken them 15 years to become big enough that their stock holders demand more money than a couple of 5 second ads per video.

    They’ll squeeze a couple more bucks out of ads, then they’ll squeeze a couple more out of premium, but not enough people will go past that. They can’t keep pulling profit out of thin air for wall streets demand for perpetual increase.

    Sooner or later some of the following will have to happen:

    Mandatory login to watch

    Users/Content providers pay a premium for quality

    Content providers pay for storage

    New or low rated content providers pay for hosting until they reach minimum subscribers.

    Premium gets unskippable 5 second ads.

    No embedding off site.

  • Tygr
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    91 year ago

    In other news, air contains oxygen.

  • @RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world
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    71 year ago

    [Company] cares more about its shareholders and profits more than [the environment, safety, its employees or customers, the economy, etc.] Not sure why this would be a revelation to anyone.

  • edric
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    21 year ago

    Well, caring less for your privacy means more revenue for them, so yes.

  • FlumPHP
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    11 year ago

    Just pay for the service. Then you can run all the blockers you want.