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

  • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyz
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    2 years 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@lemmy.world
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      2 years 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.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      2 years ago

      Oh yes it does, it cares about your privacy being shared with them.

  • 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.

  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world
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    2 years 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.