Youtube is owned by Google. Google takes creepiness to the highest level. They want your phone number so they can associate any data they collect to you personally. It helps them stalk you. They are pathological stalkers. They collect info you search for in their search engine. They collect info from the sites you visit with the adsense scripts they have scattered on websites all over the internet. They give websites ad scripts so the site can be paid to display ads. They can track you across the web through those ad scripts. They close the loop with the Chrome Browser. It lets them grab info on anything you do and they make it difficult to stop them from collecting the data. Not only that, the HTTPS protocol provides a higher integrity to the data they collect and attribute to you. I will not give any websites my phone number. There is no situation online where giving out more personal info about yourself makes your online activities more secure. None.
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There is no situation online where giving out more personal info about yourself makes your online activities more secure. None.
I guess a more difficult question is whether there is any situation online where giving out personal info makes society more secure.
It would vary by circumstance. Which is a worse scenario? You defending your privacy and security against a billion other people, or a billion other people defending their security against you? Who has the better odds of survival?
So I better be on peertube and stay there. I should ask someone to reuploud my stuff later probably.
Are you talking about watching or uploading to YouTube?
You can use NewPipe on Android and FreeTube on desktop as free open source third party clients. They allow you to create (or import) a list of local subscriptions and a subscription tab where the list of your subscried channels' videos gets fetched and ordered into a chronological list just like on YouTube with an account. They are less responsive and stable than YouTube app and website, but work well for watching your favorite channels.
dont forget about invidious! the alternative open source frontend to youtube.
Also don't forget about Piped.
Uploading, I already use NewPipe/Freetube, Invidious, + privacy redirector.
Youtube gets too easy for me to jump into rabbitholes for a finite amount of hours. So I only visit the official youtube website only for some dank memes.
You could also look into other platforms such as peertube and lbry, that actually respect your privacy.
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Hello, use peertube dude.
edit: This is my preferred instance: https://video.ploud.jp/ free registration and uploads, but uploads require manual approval, imo it is a good approach
I wan't a gaming instance :((