stardust

Poor Google. Such a small company struggling to get by.

Worst case scenario I think I'd just resort to downloading the videos to watch. Live videos is the challenge, but luckily I don't watch live streams.

I find visiting the site through archive.today to be a good fallback for articles. Bypasses paywalls too.

Yeah, this type of tech is way more accessible than it was before, which isn't the problem. It's that Apple has not done enough to provide safety to users from airtags if they aren't using an Apple product. This isn't one of those techs that should be gated behind a walled garden because of the potential consequences to unsuspecting targets.

Apple needs to break from their usual walled garden approach when it comes to their tracking technology.

Yeah, I've been wary of cloud based options so gone with KeePass and syncthing to leep things synced locally.

Also yesterday, Reuters reported that the European Commission has begun trying to establish whether iMessage should be brought under the remit of the EU’s new antitrust law, the Digital Markets Act, which imposes interoperability requirements (among other things) on so-called gatekeeper services that are part of many people’s daily lives.

Apple’s iOS operating system, App Store, and Safari browser already fall under the DMA, which is likely to force Apple to allow third-party app stores on iPhones and iPads, but Apple so far managed to lobby the Commission into leaving iMessage out of it. If the Commission decides after its investigation that iMessage is worth regulating in this way, Apple would have until August next year to introduce some form of interoperability—presumably with RCS.

It really is quite something seeing people so concerned on behalf Google's revenue streams, and dedicating such passionate advocacy for them.

I'm not sure how having a paid account is supposed to lead to less tracking when the algorithm meant to push viewers into a viewing loop is made possible by tracking. Accounts with more information make for more useful demographic data.

Not having ads is a benefit of YouTube premium, but less tracking is not a benefit when there is a reason to track even without ads. For better products and surveillance. There is less reasons to not track.

Read the comment I responded to. They said YouTube premium provides them with less incentive to track them. I'm informing them that is not the benefit of paying for YouTube premium. Too many people mistakenly believe paying means they stop being the product.

Yeah, my favorite YouTube content has been the type that are just random uploads from people who don't even post frequently or ever again, and just sharing something because they thought it was cool along the vein of reddit and lemmy. So doesn't have that whole artificial production vibe and intentionally lengthened videos with begs for likes and so on, since there was no monetization motive to begin with.

Crappy thing is that those type of videos are suppressed and hidden by the algorithm that pushes the big channels to the top in searches. YouTube really pushes the personality/influencer driven content for obvious reasons, but it's why I haven't really fallen into the YouTube hole of endlessly watching it.

They are still tracking you though. Removing ads is a reason to pay for YouTube premium, but it's not to get less tracking. Less tracking is not the selling point or service offered by YouTube premium.

I was disappointed it didn't apply to YouTube when not logged in, since I'd love a clean interface without recommendations.