=> Re: "Google is toying with us" | In: s/privacy
This worries me a lot, too. Such morally bankrupt companies are having access to everything you do all the time with such precision, and they are selling this data to everyone paying. Now add to this total decay of politics, and in result something totally innocent now (playing games for more than 2h a day or watching politically incorrect video) might be punishable by death in near future because some crazy democratically-elected dictator want to breed his ideal nation of super-humans…
=> 🚲 Aelspire
2024-09-21 · 4 months ago
=> 🚀 stack [OP] · Sep 21 at 14:38:
Actually it let me use it. Apparently, the home button takes you to a 'login now' screen at first, but as soon as you watch anything (from a search, e.g.) the home screen is populated with algo-selected videos.
A single searched video, unsurprisingly, gave me my usual favorites. Because it knew exactly what I like.
=> ☕️ Morgan · Sep 21 at 14:56:
In Europe it would be totally illegal to do anything like that: any personally identifying information has to be collected with permission for specified purposes.
Everywhere else, it's just not worth it. When 99% of people are happy with the default privacy settings on offer, why do extra work for the 1% who are trying to avoid being tracked? The extra complexity would be significant, and the risk of negative publicity, for negligible additional profit.
=> 🌻 softwarepagan · Sep 23 at 02:16:
@Aelspire This is my fear for the future too.
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Google is toying with us — I am sadly drawn to Youtube in my downtime. I have a pretty eclectic taste in what I want to watch to relax, which includes front-window hour-long views of tram rides in various European capital cities, trips through sewers and Chernobyl tunnels, and various waterworks. Yeah, I guess I am a bit weird. Anyway, I try to use various libre vewers for youtube streams, but sometimes I just want to watch on my TV without dicking around with computers. After a break for a...
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