Curious if anyone actually engages in YouTube videos here?

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    Hell no, and for two very good reasons:

    • To comment and subscribe, you need a Youtube account. There’s no way on God’s green Earth I’ll ever open any Google account. They track me enough as it is without me helping them.

    • Youtube monetizes your preferences - subscriptions and comments - which helps their business grow. I will never do anything to help Google if I can avoid it. Google needs to die, not grow larger than the cancerous blob they’ve already become.

    I do subscribe locally to channels, and I have my personal playlists in FreeTube and NewPipe though, but Google doesn’t get to profit from that information. As for commenting, I’ve never seen any thread compelling enough to respond to. But if I do, I’ll abstain in the name of not helping Google.