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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by k20CuozQmk on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:40PM (#29184477)
>I'm imagining someone in 1990 hearing you say that being able to instantly start watching almost any music video or filmed lecture/talk ever made

Imagine going back and mentioning that this would also be a way for the company (Google) to snoop on your conversations and censor dissenting thougth.

A free way to stream any video sounds nice, but it doesn't once you mention the fact that it actually limits the type of content you are able to enjoy.

We should be trying to build a better infrastructure for FOSS video streaming instead of trying to rationalize shitty business models.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by austinthetaco on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:40AM (#29187254)
No one is censoring thoughts and any conversations that are snooped on are ones you allow to be snooped on by using a free service.
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by k20CuozQmk on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:22AM (#29189693)
>any conversations that are snooped on are ones you allow to be snooped on by using a free service

I don't think the innocence of the people who don't know the difference between proprietary and free software should be the thing we attack here, specially since the company in question has gone through great efforts before to restrain the spread of the FSF.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by Grustaf on Saturday November 13, 2021 @04:50PM (#29213484)
That's debatable. Any company that analyses large amounts of data produced by you in the form of posts, likes/dislikes, follows etc are effectively reading your mind.
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