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    1 month ago

    Not going to be a popular opinion but that doesn’t surprise me at all, almost certainly breaks their tos.

    I think people should focus more on stuff like peertube that doesn’t just piggyback off another service against said service provider’s wishes

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      1 month ago

      Sure, I agree, but at the end of the day it’s useful to be able to search and watch YouTube videos so long as it’s a popular platform because it still has by far the bulk of topics covered.

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        1 month ago

        You can do that through their own interface though, there are browser extensions to do all the things invidious did anyway

        Not like going to the website will cause your computer to blow up or something, if privacy is the concern there are plenty of ways to anonymise it

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          1 month ago

          This isnt entirely true. They can fingerprint your browser very easily, even if you use always private sessions that delete cookies. Something as simple as the size of your window can be used to identify you.

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            1 month ago

            I suppose if you really can’t stand to give them any information at all, don’t want to pay and don’t use ads your only choice is to not use the service

            They provide a pretty good service all things considered and have to pay the bills for their servers somehow

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              1 month ago

              If they were to be independently audited by multiple Privacy firms and/or open source their codebase I wouldnt be as concerned about giving them data and maybe even paying for something like YTPremium, but as it stands its a black box. I dont know what theyre doing, why should they get to know what I’m doing? Privacy should be a two way street imho. If the cost of privacy is that they wouldnt be able to maintain their infrastructure, I’d rather see their company fail.

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      1 month ago

      None of the creators I want to follow are on peertube, and I have no social media to ask them to move, nor do I want to engage with those platforms.

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        Like wanting to donate but they only offer proprietary, big corpo middlemen options like Patreon or Paypal or Microsoft GitHub Sponsors where they scrape off the top without adding any value.

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          1 month ago

          Yeah this is also a frustration I have. I dont want to sign up for patreon or Google just to support someone. Give me a Kofi, liberapay or monero option.

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            1 month ago

            That won’t help the content creator as much with their taxes is my assumption as to why we don’t see it often. Whereas it’s probably a lot easier to report their revenue from patreon.

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              Does google/patreon do country/state/county/province tax calculation? I’d be surprised as when I was working DoorDash they wouldnt even do as much as a free trial of TurboTax to get you started. The wrote you a check and it was on you to figure the rest out

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        1 month ago

        Which at the end of the day is your choice, as much as it’s theirs not to use foss tools like mastodon and peertube