• FarLine99@lemm.eeOP
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          9 months ago

          Firstly, we do not have worthy alternatives (PeerTube and Odyssee are not yet sufficiently developed). Secondly, I watch them through LibreTube, so Google does not know information about me. Thirdly, the world consists of compromises. This is one of them.

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            9 months ago

            The world consists of compromises

            This is one of those things that is very true and is very easy to forget until you take a moment to step back.

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            9 months ago

            I get it, I just find it ironic that people post privacy related content on a platform run by the worst company in the world privacy wise.

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              9 months ago

              @ExLisper

              I think there are defendable grounds for saying someone posting about privacy on YouTube is and is not ironic. How surprising or unexpected it is depends on many factors like the poster’s goals, threat models, and degree of altruism, user expectations regarding the poster, and congruence or incongruence with all of the above.

              @FarLine99
              @xad

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              9 months ago

              Andthee worlds servers are hosted by Google, Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure). Are we not supposed to use the internet now?

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              9 months ago

              I get it, I just find it ironic that people post privacy related content on a platform run by the worst company in the world privacy wise.

              This website you are commenting on has been delivered to you through billions worth of corporate infrastructure. Often these companies have long track records of privacy violations and corruption, and you reproduce their power by your participation. Yet you still seem to be using the Internet.

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                9 months ago

                Yes, for sure, by simply connecting to the internet using my local provider and public backbone infrastructure (I’m not in US) I’m supporting corporations. Next you will tell me I’m supporting Saudi Arabia by turning light on in my bathroom.

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                  9 months ago

                  Yes, for sure, by simply connecting to the internet using my local provider and public backbone infrastructure (I’m not in US) I’m supporting corporations. Next you will tell me I’m supporting Saudi Arabia by turning light on in my bathroom.

                  You are getting dangerously close to understanding my reply. It was deliberately ridiculous, and is equivalent to the ridiculousness of your initial observation. Yes, there is and will be discourse around privacy on YouTube. No, it is not ironic.

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                    9 months ago

                    If you think that putting content on YT and pushing more people to the platform hence giving them more data while talking about protecting your data from corporations is not ironic then you simply don’t know what irony is.

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              9 months ago

              The modern world consists of irony, albeit often sad. The goal of many of them is to reach ordinary people. And they watch videos on YouTube. The end justifies the means, I believe.