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YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

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You mean: "YouTube cares not at all about your privacy in its drive for revenue"

There, corrected the title for you.

Water is wet, news at 20:16

Really? But I believed otherwise

FOX is your network, then. ;)

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.

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.

I mean if you care about safety you dont leave the house.

That’s how this argument sounds. Right along the argument that if your dont want your ip stolen dont put it online.

You’re statistically more likely to die slipping in your bathtub or falling off your toilet than most activities outside the house.

To prevent your IP from being stolen, place a condom over the Ethernet plug before inserting it into the jack.

No shit? Isn’t that every major tech company public traded?

If it has a ticker, you best believe you’re the product, whether you realize it or not.

... no?

If it has a ticker and the "product" is free, then you're the product.

But plenty of tech companies exist that make their money by charging for the actual product.

and then you're still the product, They're just charging everyone they can get their grubby hands on.

> But plenty of tech companies exist that make their money by charging for the actual product.

And how many of those STILL sell your data, even after paying them?

All of them.

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