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How much of your life have you degoogled? (beehaw.org)

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We're reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not.

Now more than ever, it's important for us to step back and reconsider whether we want to be billboards for these companies anymore.

For anyone unfamiliar, some good resources to have when starting your degoogling journey are below:

Privacy Guides - A list of privacy-respecting services you can use.

Plexus - A crowdsourced information bank of service compatibility with degoogled devices.

This random PDF - A study from 2018 detailing data that Google tracks about its' users.

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[–] kostel_thecreed 1 points 2 years ago

Get ublock origin and use medium mode to globally block anything google related.

To further compartmentalize your YouTube you can do this (assuming you are in the USA and wish to continue using premium)

Use a VPN and choose a US based server
Make a google account in a seperate profile, preferably configured for maximum privacy. For the phone number use a one time SMS and then add totp 2fa so that they won't message the number
Use privacy.com and purchase the premium from there. You can use a fake name since privacy will redirect the transaction regardless
Always switch up the VPN server throughout the US and make sure you do not login without the VPN!

This is not bullet-proof, and it would be preferred to use a front-end while using a VPN, but that won't work if you want YT premium.