• Armand1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I hadn’t thought of it from a privacy perspective.

    I couldn’t imagine using YouTube not signed in because of the dogs**t recommendations you get then. I imagine if you’re signed in the privacy loss is not significantly less than if you paid for Premium too.

    I also use GMail so I’m already f***ed from that. I’ve basically given up on privacy at any other time than when I want to do private things, and I use a VPN and private browser.

    • uzay@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      I honestly have more than enough content on Youtube to watch without having to rely on recommendations, and I intentionally do not use Google accounts in any other capacity either. So yeah, for me Youtube Premium is just not an option even though I would be open to pay for the content. Hell, I even do donate to some individual creators through other platforms already. If Google wants my money they shouldn’t have killed the separate Youtube account and shouldn’t have forced everything into their surveillance-ad business.