this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
1704 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

59669 readers
2708 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not just that. I have always turned of history and analytics since 2020. I use you tube to check news about happening events in my region(politics and stuff), so I can open the video on invidious or newpipe. But yesterday, as I opened you tube, it threw me this message... So, now I feel better, but seems, they have never stopped tracking what I search and watch, even when I opted to keep it off. Also maybe it is due to new feature where we can see the full video in hover mode, without clicking it to watch. But whatever, I wanted to let lemmy people to know that something like this happened yesterday to me.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

They can absolutely go fuck themselves. I've already weened myself off of nearly every social media, stopped paying for YT premium because they keep doing bullshit I don't like. I'm so ready for an alternative.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Lol, I've seen that but still just use the adblocker and it plays as normal.

I think it's meant to scare non tech savvy people. I don't see how they can stop us using adblockers....

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PeerTube looks quite promising with its decentralised model. Surely it will never be perfect. But decentralisation is essencial. Also because the types of videos I like to see in YouTube either are monetised by themselfs in some way. Or are not monetised at all. YouTube does not seem necessary for those creators.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha! Forced ads = no watchie-watchie. I have played this game with YouTube before, and the adblockers always win.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Im honestly considering getting a flip phone at this point it's kind of ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I guess, like everything youtube will be replaced with other things

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I'm with the group that refuses to ever watch YT ads, but I guess it does help reduce bandwidth if they kick everyone off that's using an adblocker.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›