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FreeTube wasn't loading a video, so I tried opening it in the YouTube website instead. Rather than being able to watch a 13 second video (here it is in case anyone wants to know), I managed to capture is one of the most dystopian screenshots I've personally seen. Every single element of this image is truly astounding if you look close enough and think about it for a moment.

13 seconds of your life now costs you even more time to prove you're not trying to scrape a video from a hundred billion dollar corporation with nearly infinite resources, advertisements and clickbait grabbing at your attention, every interaction logged and sold to thousands of data brokers, and you can't even show your appreciation without selling more information by creating an account. How did we get here?

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[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

can't even show your appreciation without selling more information

The content producer you're trying to show appreciation for is the one who put their content on a platform that forces you to sell your information in order to appreciate them. Maybe let's not appreciate those who do that.

[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

We should not hold those ignorant to privacy accountable.They simply don't know any better. Instead, we should only hold those actively opposing privacy accountable. We should try to educate those ignorant to privacy and show them the alternatives that exist. I bet if these content creators could switch without major loss (e.g. a major chunk of subscribers lost) most of them would be more than happy to.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works -1 points 9 months ago

I'd also be depressed if I was watching daily dose of internet.