perhaps it would serve humanity greatly if I do not reproduce
"I only watch youtube through libretube, invidious and freetube
Probably its own kind of red flag.
“Your watch history is disabled”
I’m glad I’m old enough where I can actively pretend like I don’t know how to use technology.
Like I was at a bar, and some weirdo asked if I was on Facebook and I shrugged and said I don’t understand technology and they go, “Totally makes sense at your age!”
I’d definitely lose interest in a conversation with someone who responded with that.
They’re bad enough online.
Smart people?
Maybe smart people, but definitely someone who have probably won’t shut up about one of the following topics:
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Linux
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Anti corpo
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Ads on websites
None of these are bad or unpopular things, mind you.
It’s just a sign of someone shifted a liiiittle more extremist.
They’ll probably nag at you to leave reddit to join their weird website called Lemmy. Maybe insist you use their to a
Plexopen source jellyfin server that only works 2/3 of the time.Of_course_i_know_him_hes_me.jpg
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It’s called finding a shared interest!
you dropped this king "
You will address Henry by his rightful title of Emperor. Surely, he hath earned it righteously, not pulled it from the ether at the behest of a website.
it will be returned in due time, do not worry.
Hmmm I wonder what this say about me.
I watched this video because of you
It was interesting 👀
Made me want to taste test myself, am I doomed?
I dont think so. I shared this pic in a discord and literally seconds after a couple dudes started asking about the results of that test. I guess we all wonder that because I dont think the percentage of population using flavoured condoms is that high.
If this video doesn’t exist, I’m going to be very disappointed.
You’re welcome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF-vrL0htbE
I like the alternative reality where Ronald Reagan had Big Bird killed for the State of the Union address
My red flag would be showing them NewPipe, with recommendations turned completely off.
The brain rotted min doesn’t understand the lack of an infinite pit of o-face reaction videos to pick from.
And subscriptions using RSS feeds instead of a YouTube account.
Guilty.
Having no actual presence on social media is considered “creepy” by modern social standards, instead of what I view it as: more secure.
Having no actual presence on social media
I’ve got some bad news for you…
I meant no actual presence on mainstream social media where I’m not using a pseudonym, and exchange profiles with the general public that I meet.
Forums are not social media. How is this hard to understand. Forums have existed for decades longer than social media and if you include forums in the definition of social media then you literally by definition include every comment section on every blog, news site, and even things like the FCC request for comments from citizens.
It’s absolutely idiotic to include forums in that definition. You make the definition so wide as to be useless.
People have gotten confused and declared that any internet based activity that involves interaction is social media. Social media is centered on users (you follow other people, not topics, and people for whatever crazy reason use their real name), whereas there is absolutely no real reason to do that on a forum.
if forums are social media, or the internet more broadly is social media, would that include shit like, newspapers? And like, the library?
Great way to put it. That really is the root of it.
Social media is centered on users (you follow other people, not topics
This is the exact reason I never became interested in Mastodon. Following people just isn’t my style. The only social media I use is YouTube (without an account) because apparently Lemmy isn’t social media.
If that’s considered creepy then I’m john wayne gacy
I’ve had the opposite response. Generally I get a “good on ya, I should really delete it too”
I find avoiding social media helps reduce encounters with the insane side of people who somehow appear to be relatively normal in real life.
For instance, I actually like my inlaws in real life, despite having some very different views than they do. On Facebook however, they’re complete fucking idiots that I wouldn’t give the time of day because they would just argue with me about it.
It’s odd how that proxy allows people to act feral. It’s like the behavior of a dog behind a fence.
Though I’ll admit to trolling a little bit here and there, so maybe I’m not the best example.
It’s funny, I’m the opposite. In real life, I openly advocate for seizing the means of production and guillotining the rich, but I don’t do that on Facebook because I don’t want to get banned.
as far as i care, having social media makes you more likely to be insane, because of the aggressive amount of influence that these sites and applications hold over people.
Newpipe has recommendations?
It has “hot” but I don’t think the feed is personalized.
They ask for your search history then
My browser clears private data at the end of every session.
Same, but you were talking about NewPipe. I assume you use that on your phone.
And while you can disable the search history there, too, it often is convenient not to have to type the name of that thing you want to listen to while you’re driving, so many people leave it enabled.
I just leverage playlists or bookmarks, typically. But while driving, I play my FLAC library off a thumbdrive.
YSK you could also swipe single entries away in your Newpipe search history.
Or switching profiles in GrapheneOS so I can look at my Google apps
Er, this is mine.
I got a new Raycevick video and Engineering Explained video about F1. I am happy with this
If you are into the Lego video you may want to check out Brick Experiment Channel
That looks great thanks!
No financial stability based on the lego one. :D
You pass the vibe check
I watched the sub one already, great recommendation to lose some minutes of time on
My first recommendation is from that Townsend YouTube channel where the guy dresses up like it’s 1776 and cooks food from that time period with a funny authentic 1776 kitchen and cookware
It’s a sign of sugma
All right, someone’s gotta play along.
What’s sugma?
Sugma balls! Thanks for playing.
Woah
I’m so happy to be out of the dating phase of my life. I wouldn’t stand a chance with my tinfoil hat settings like deactivated recommendations, ad- and js-blocking and auto-deleting all cookies when closing a tab.
What do you mean women don’t like a FOSS privacy-oriented user experience? Don’t they like going through 500 pages of documentation when Gentoo breaks only to realize all along that the problem was fixed by turning the computer off and on again?
What do you mean men don’t like that either?? What kind of place is this?!
It turns out it’s harder to meet a privacy-conscious partner but they really do exist in large numbers. Back in my day the dating scene for this type was the weed dealer’s house/apartment, but now that it’s legal I don’t know what the replacement is. Probably ren fairs or lighter hobbies like kite flying meetups lol.
auto-deleting all cookies when closing a tab.
You know, I would never use auto-delete cookies because I want to stay logged into sites. However I do wish there was an extension or something that would delete all cookies except for manually whitelisted sites. Then random news websites wouldn’t be able to easily track all my visits, but I could stay logged into sites.
What you want is a feature that all Firefox based browser have. I am not sure about chromium based but ik that brave also have it.
Librewolf has this built in.
Any guide on how to enable this feature?
In Firefox or any browser based on it:
Open settings > Privacy & Security
Under “Cookies and Site Data” check the box. For exceptions click the “Manage Exceptions…” on the right.Works great. Just wish it had an “export” button for the list so you could transfer the list between new installs/reinstalls
On Librewolf the default is all cookies get cleared. When you go to a site you want to save cookies for, you can easily add it to the whitelist by clicking the lock icon in the URL bar and toggling on the “Keep cookies” option.
Why deactivate recommendations instead of being logged into YouTube using an email that exists only for the YT account?
Because it does nothing for privacy?
My cookies have a lifetime of two days and get deleted if i close the browser.
I don’t watch TV, YouTube or alternatives filling that gap in for me (so in short, yes, a lot more)
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It’s not. I spend too much time vetting and blocking right wing channels despite never watching any while logged in.
I usually binge a specific channel in a new subject then youtube blasts me with whatever they think will engage me the most and it’s always the trashiest content. Big red arrows, all caps, surprised faces, misleading thumbnails.
I once left a live stream open when I went to bed and the next day, I had train videos on my recommendations. They had raided into a train live stream.
I have watch history turned off precisely to avoid getting personal recommendations because they have always sucked for me
I’m not logged in because I don’t want any suggestions! I’m using ReVanced of course.
It took me until your comment to realize i can take back control of my feed.
And the required: “nice” for the 69.
For browsers, install the addon UnHook to remove video suggestions.
