[HN Gopher] YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues
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YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues
Author : thunderbong
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-11-07 16:12 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
| lencastre wrote:
| Water is wet, news at 20:16
| paulddraper wrote:
| Really? But I believed otherwise
| Nasrudith wrote:
| I mean if you care for privacy above all else you wouldn't bother
| going online. Annoying as the adds are and ill-fit as the YouTube
| subscription price is (it should be an order of magnitude less
| for a compulsive cheapskate like me to consider it), the title is
| a bit over the top.
| zen928 wrote:
| You don't avoid drowning in water by avoiding water, you avoid
| it by learning how to swim. In the case that you find it
| necessary to swim, you now aren't limited to drowning.
|
| Your privacy extends beyond what you personally expose, being
| aware of what others see and use your information for and how
| your information can be protected is how you maintain privacy.
| You can't fully avoid others keeping information about you
| online by not being online (banks, retail, flying, identity,
| tax information, pictures on facebook, school records, ...),
| but you can understand the evolution of systems that would use
| your personal information to decide on how you can obfuscate or
| limit sending information to maintain your privacy. Holding bad
| actors accountable for mishandling information isn't
| contradictory to trying to keep your privacy.
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