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Re:PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative by asfasgasg on Sunday June 24, 2018 @05:33PM (#17388512)
> Best of all, google won’t know I watched it at all

Why do you think that? It would be very easy for Google to observe who is viewing PeerTube videos and to link that back to those people's YouTube profiles. You may trust them not to, but if you do, it seems you're half way to thinking it's OK for them to know.

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Re:PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative by josteink on Monday June 25, 2018 @02:30AM (#17390332)
> It would be very easy for Google to observe who is viewing PeerTube videos

I'm not saying it can't be done, but I wouldn't assume they would go out of their way to monitor this, just like I wouldn't assume they're monitoring public IPs of torrents in the process of downloading.

Yes. It would be easy. But why would they?

Speaking in BT-terms... Peertube's might find this peeking annoying and start publishing "peerguardian" like lists to prevent Google-spying.

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