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Judge Fang · 2018-05-24 00:20

Can the Google and its services already read our minds?

Well, before keep going, I wanna talk about two things here:
1. I don't know if this is the most proper board to discuss about it,
so, staff can move or even remove this thread later. I just resquest
that don't ban me please.

2. I'm still learn english, so we'll probably have some problems in
comunication, but I'll try it.

So, I noticed one partiular thing while I was using Youtube. Ever when
I need to consult/search for another vídeo while I'm already watching
a video, I go to the research bar and they suggest me the exacly thing
I was thinking about.
Let me give you one exemple: I was watching a video and the person in
that video named a movie. I thought: "Well, let's see that movie's
trailer", so I typed the first letter and the entire name of the movie
came out among the suggestions. It's often occouring.

I don't like the idea of soykaf company inside my mind but I need the
youtube because I use it to study. What shoud I do in order to defend
myself against it?

Is it paranoia?
Help me please.

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Acid Burn · 2018-05-24 00:37

>jewtube
Use hooktube instead. It will allow you to watch youtube videos
anonymously (but just log out first, of course).

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Gyula Kovacs · 2018-05-24 04:04

No, but it can guess what you're thinking, and it's pretty fuarrrking
good at it too.
><video> mentions <movie>, but it's not in the title or the
description
>user 1 searches for <movie>
>google's search algorithms make videos related <movie> slightly more
common for other users who see <video>
>repeat until <movie> related videos are closely associated by the
algorithm with <video>

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Leto Atreides I · 2018-05-24 11:48

>>4699
if they see requests from an IP that was logged in as joe@gmail.com 30
minutes ago, they're going to know what you're doing

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Nemissa · 2018-05-24 21:19

>>4702
actually thanks to subnetting, the prevalence of public/semi-public
wifi, and the huge amount of traffic going through their system, it's
unlikely.

IP isn't even used to track people most of the time these days, other
methods are actually more effective and less resource-intensive.

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Armitage · 2018-05-25 12:55

Why would they need to? The majority of people spill everything that's
on their minds voluntarily into Google's services 24/7.
They created something far more efficient for that purpose, which is
for people to feel the neueological obligation to tell them
everything.

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Pulse · 2018-05-25 16:30

>>4711
>it's unlikely
I agree with you, but I do want to note that these anonymous requests
are still logged for analytical reasons. I don't see any evidence of
them trying to deanonymize that traffic to an account / person though.

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Hitomi · 2018-05-25 17:12

>>4711
What other methods?

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Lain Iwakura · 2018-06-02 01:25

>>4723
browser fingerprinting. There's an entire industry built around it.

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Case · 2018-06-26 08:17

>>4699
1. Hooktube(.COM)
2. Cloudflare
--> I rather use youtube

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Mario Rossi · 2018-06-28 11:07

>I need youtube to study
Never say this again please. You need books, exploration and
expirience using what you've read to learn. The misconception that
youtube is learning platform is there just because illuminati wants
you to be a click away from watching cute cats. I have seen numerous
video tutorials in my lifetime and they are mostly made by users who
don't have any skills but they are just well prepared and they create
the scenarios so that they control the situation. Always learn from
books and your expirience. People before us didn't have internet and
youtube and they still managed to be on a knowledge level which is
ultra high in today standards. The more we are able to know the less
we know. People before us were thrilled when they would get a new book
about CS and we are able to download for example whole gentoomans
library in one click. Amateurs back then used to write their own code
and their own games for fun. Today advanced users play soykafy games,
write hello world in different programming languages because they
can't decide what langauge they want to learn, don't know vim nor
emacs because they are waiting for winner in threads about which one
is better, they install linux distros every few days and follow some
DE and customisation trends. Don't be a normal person consumer.

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Turner · 2018-06-28 11:18

>>4699
>>4723
>>4786
I'm surprised that in such a technophile community nobody uses
youtube-dl and mpv. Which are cross platform. Yeah what do I care for
if they try to track a program that doesn't execute an JS and directly
grabs the DASH streams for aac/m4v or ogg/webm off their CDNs?
Literally a non-existing problem matey.

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Cowboy · 2018-06-28 11:23

>>4971
RSS + youtube-dl + mpv