A Very Dystopian Screenshot
FreeTube wasn't loading a video, so I tried opening it in the YouTube website instead. Rather than being able to watch a 13 second video (here it is in case anyone wants to know), I managed to capture is one of the most dystopian screenshots I've personally seen. Every single element of this image is truly astounding if you look close enough and think about it for a moment.
13 seconds of your life now costs you even more time to prove you're not trying to scrape a video from a hundred billion dollar corporation with nearly infinite resources, advertisements and clickbait grabbing at your attention, every interaction logged and sold to thousands of data brokers, and you can't even show your appreciation without selling more information by creating an account. How did we get here?
FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client
FreeTube is a feature-rich and user-friendly YouTube client with a focus on privacy.freetubeapp.io
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Vendetta9076
in reply to The 8232 Project • • •りん〜
in reply to Vendetta9076 • • •RisingSwell
in reply to Vendetta9076 • • •HappyFrog
in reply to Vendetta9076 • • •monovergent
in reply to Vendetta9076 • • •lib1 [comrade/them]
in reply to The 8232 Project • • •UltraGiGaGigantic
in reply to lib1 [comrade/them] • • •Luke
in reply to The 8232 Project • • •The content producer you're trying to show appreciation for is the one who put their content on a platform that forces you to sell your information in order to appreciate them. Maybe let's not appreciate those who do that.
The 8232 Project
in reply to Luke • • •Luke
in reply to The 8232 Project • • •It isn't like it's a niche secret that YouTube siphons people's privacy and sells their personal information. Creators being ignorant about that might have been a excuse a decade ago, but not now. I don't think we should be excusing content creators who collaborate with and benefit from the machinery of viewer-exploitative content distribution that is YouTube.
Edit: also, you're here in a privacy community defending the violation of privacy that you yourself originally described as dystopian. I'm not trying to be confrontational with you, here. I genuinely do not understand how you can think that content creators bear no responsibility for the dystopian situation you've encountered. Certainly they don't bear all the responsibility for what YouTube does, but they chose to support YouTube by uploading monetized content there.
I'm not saying they should be canceled for that, but appreciated for it? Let's not.
The 8232 Project
in reply to Luke • • •I appreciate their content, not their choices.
Lytia
in reply to The 8232 Project • • •Arkhive
in reply to The 8232 Project • • •EDIT: Kid you not, I had just installed FreeTube on android when I found this, and in my excitement did not read the whole post
May I present you…
celestial chorus
FreeTube
FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client
freetubeapp.ioりん〜
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in reply to りん〜 • • •somerandomperson
in reply to Arkhive • • •mybuttnolie
in reply to somerandomperson • • •somerandomperson
in reply to mybuttnolie • • •okay then, i'm installing grayjay.
Richard
in reply to The 8232 Project • • •airikr
in reply to The 8232 Project • • •Truly disgusting and worrying.
I use my own Piped instance and can watch every video that has no age-restriction. Feels awesome and can highly recommend it.
GitHub - TeamPiped/Piped: An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
GitHubthatkomputerkat
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