But can I tell you that - regardless of the content - this feels more like a blatant attempt at getting more YouTube views with a patreon link in tow?
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Everyone's got an answer, and the wrong ones want cash up front.
At least the user hasn't been pushing the same channel in their other posts
He didn't even mention his Patreon in the video. You have to scroll to the end of the description to see the link. It's nowhere near as blatant as most YouTube creators out there, and I actually thought it was quite a good opinion piece with some well researched introduction.
Not sure I agree with the title of the video though. I assume that's why it has so many downvotes here?
or... maybe it wasn't designed at all. maybe it is just a natural artefact of all big tech companies wanting to control the next big thing.
Aye, and with all the money consolidated in a few big tech companies they've basically been able to form their own "oligarchy funded project" and act independently of any government.
An economy all their own.
AI bubble bursts recessesion follows
The purpose of the "AI" grift is to shovel as much money as possible from marks to grifters.
Whether the "bubble" pops or not, that's a concern for the marks.
Funny preface there. The mods here do take down everything they personally don’t like.
Lost me at "designed"
Yeah. Not a fan of YouTube. Regardless of content, I am not clicking.
Use mpv on desktop, newpipe on mobile
That's still not a solution for some.
I for one still won't open videos that way to not link my IP/client with contents I am interested in.
NewPipe is strictly limited to music.
Piped is for watching stuff.
Don't expose your real IP, keep a VPN on all the time and not only when you have traffic you want to mask.
NewPipe definitely does play video. I have it installed and it works fine
Yes, I use a VPN for basically everything I do online, but I still don't want Google to link the IPs I use to the content I'm interested in.
And I know NewPipe works with video, I meant I strictly use it for music (behind VPN) and nothing else for the reason above.
And I know NewPipe works with video, I meant I strictly use it for music (behind VPN) and nothing else for the reason above.
Gotcha, I misunderstood.
I still don't want Google to link the IPs I use to the content I'm interested in.
But YouTube's servers only know that some ProtonVPN (ex.) user is connecting. They aren't able to discriminate your music requests from those of some other user on the same VPN server - based on the IP alone at least. That's assuming you never generate any traffic on that node while signed into your Google account of course. Is the video vs music distinction because song listens offer less bits of identifying information than videos?
Don't take this as preaching what you should or shouldn't do, I don't judge anyone's threat model - just always curious about where people draw the privacy vs "comfort" line :)
No worries, I am not reading it as preaching.
Basically what I try to do is minimizing the interaction with Google and have some sort of redundancy.
So on my phone I connect to a VPN server and use NewPipe for music. I'm fine with that considering that it is just music and lots of people could have similar activity.
On desktop I connect to another VPN server and use Piped (or Invidious) because the content I watch is mainly from my country (different than the server location although I'd still avoid it no matter the location) and I feel like I could easily be the only one doing it, so even if it is a VPN IP I prefer to not associate it at all with my activity.
Also the server I usually use is blocked by Google anyway, same goes for others that I frequently use on desktop.
In the case I REALLY need to open a YouTube video I do it only on desktop through Mullvad Browser from yet another server that isn't blocked by Google
On top of that I don't have a google account and I don't use other Google services, not even Play Services on my phone.
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert of anything involved here, I just follow my instinct 🤣 so if something I do seems uselessly complicated, it probably is.