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Disgusted by YouTube/Google

Bridalwhistle

Hi everyone. I really want to share something that has shocked me, and will be putting me off Youtube for good. I'm already looking at De-Googling my lifestyle. 

A while back I saw an advert on YouTube about c***ing on girls' ****. How bad is that. Considering children can access YouTube far too easily. I reported this advert, but Google's moderating system deemed the ad appropriate for YouTube. I've also read about plenty of other times where this has happened to other people. 

Also not to mentioned being recommended videos "coincidentally" about conversations in person, without being generated in a YouTube/Google search. 

I already internet search using Brave. 

My email is with Proton. 

I will be using Mega for photo and cloud storage. 

Now I'm looking at Odysee, TED, and Vimeo for video streaming. 

I want to sever myself from Google as fast as possible. I hope this doesn't upset too many people, or employees here who work for Google, but I'm just looking at posting a (justified) rant. I'm hoping it also promotes internet safety for younger forum members. If this is too upsetting however let me know: I can delete the post. 

Can anyone relate to this? 

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  • Yes, I relate. It is too complex a topic because of the  interdependency of apps and the modern world.

    I reckon you are aware of r/degoogle, of the free software foundation, and of f-droid where you can find newpipe (youtube viewer).

    Currently there is turmoil and things are getting worse soon.

    My take is to use the internet in limited ways, and usually through VPN or Tor, just as good practice.

    And if I can with ethical apps. But not always can.

    For OS's, there is Linux and alternatives but you may use it already.

    Proton and its ecosystem is a drop in replacement for many google services. I use it too (and calendar, vpn etc.)

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  • in reply to emanningis

    Well I'm sure they must find me very boring as I use the same three or 4 sites, don't buy much online, don't stream tv, music or video. If they're tracking me so closely then why do amazon try recomend romatic fiction to me, I've never read it, I've never bought it for others, they just try and get me to buy airfryers, heated clothes rails and gizmos that I dont' even know what they're for let alone why I'd want one.

    I do use ancestry sites and I've had DNA tests done, but, if they really want to clone me, well on thier heads be it, I'm not sure the world could cope with more than one of me.

    After spending my younger years politically active in things like CND and other lefty political stuff, like Reclaim the Night marches and a lot of anti-war, anti-nuke activities, they can think what the hell they like, I still believe in those things and I think one of the biggest anti protest things that has happened recently is making people fear that they may have their name on a government list somewhere. Whilst there has always been fears about this sort of thing, I dont' think it's a good reason for not protesting, if anything it's a reason for it, overwhelm them with it. 

     Basically you-tube and the like publish this stuff because theres a market for it, We could probably spend our time more productively trying to find out why that market exists and what drives people to want it and how do we educate people better

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Everything we type (well, most of), every site we access, every search on Google or on an AI is stored somewhere.

    It may be just fine. But it may not. It may be anonymised, or it may not. It may be sold to anyone wanting it or hacked off / stolen from the systems.

    It may be just be used for friendly ads, or to track you down if you protest (say), or if autism become unfashionable, or to manipulate your vote.

    Some of the things I mentioned are related to years of considering all those the statements above. For many people, it is too extreme (sometimes I agree, too).

    I hope this clarifies the intent at least. In short, they all relate to fighting for our privacy.