Comment by 🚀 stack

=> Re: "Google is toying with us" | In: s/privacy

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.

=> 🚀 stack [OP]

2024-09-21 · 4 months ago

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=> ☕️ 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...

=> 💬 stack · 5 comments · 2 likes · 2024-09-20 · 4 months ago