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If google could just take our money and give us videos in exchange yes. But unfortunately, they still suck all your data and sell it to third parties. It's ev
by BiteCode_dev 3y ago
If google could just take our money and give us videos in exchange yes.
But unfortunately, they still suck all your data and sell it to third parties.
It's even worse if you pay, because if you sign in into your youtube account on the offical app, your entire phone is now linked to your a account even if you didn't link it before, with all the data in it. If you are not careful, your entire agenda and calendar immediatly exfiltrate.
Plus google gets your credit card, which means it will now link orders and data from other services using the same card number with its partners and get even more data.
After paying of course, you still can get your accounts locked out for obscure reasons with no appeal, and despite being a customer, have zero service support.
Google is not a respectful company.
And given what we know about the PRISM program, centralizing all this data in there is not good for democracy either.
- dewey 3y ago> But unfortunately, they still suck all your data and sell it to third parties. They don't sell your data to third parties, they do advertising for third parties on their data.
- Crash0v3rid3 3y agoI can't believe people on HN are still confused by this concept.
- mikae1 3y agoThanks. This is exactly what I think every time someone says "just buy premium". There's a reason I don't have a Google account.
- cesarb 3y agoAnd even if you do have a Google account, you might not want to log into YouTube with it; for instance, I recall reading that logging into YouTube with your Google account required you to put your real name into it, and if for some reason Google decided that your real name isn't your real name, you could lose access to your whole Google account, including more important services like Gmail and Google Talk.