• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      What about people living in a country where youtube is blocked. I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?

      Yyep.

      If you’re using a VPN, you’re likely anonymized and not directly making YouTube any money. Those are leeches, as far as a Google accountant is concerned.

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        23 hours ago

        They said logging in doesn’t make it go away. Being logged in means they can already track you, so this is pretty ridiculous of them tbh.

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          Being logged in means they can track what you watch. Being logged in via a VPN means they can’t track your location.

          Literally valuable information.

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      24 hours ago

      I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?

      Yes, 100%, absokutely correct.

      Google is a company.

      Companies do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.

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        18 hours ago

        Google is a company multi-billion dollar corporation.

        Companies Multi-billion dollar corporations do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.

        (Well ok, there is plenty of small business who also don’t care about you, that’s not my point).

    • SmokeyDope@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      A few days ago I gotta message from google saying they “can’t verify my age” (meaning they want gov ID I’m sure) so I’m forced to use safe search and other stuff too.

      Fuck. That!