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Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.

People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.

if you support trans people except transmascs, you are still transphobic. quit falling for tactics created to divide us. people have been getting the message, but i'm going to state it here. acting like a TERF makes you a TERF. everyone who isn't transphobic, i love you impersonally

#this blog supports all trans and intersex people >:} happy pride month

achillesinhighheels

masonlindroth

mandatoryrollercoaster

This is Progress

#the list of reasons why it sucks is so long i cannot take you seriously if you try to rationalize away ai criticism with dumb talking points #“what about video game ai” different fucking thing dude these are LLM slop machines #i KNOW the internet uses datacenters that's kind of why we shouldn't be dumping more resources into this waste ffs #at least we could afford that other thing but this is just dangerously irresponsible and not beneficial at all

weepingwidar

Rodrigo Angel Jimenez-Ortega (Mexican-American, 1994) - Paisano a Paisano 1 (2025)

herpsandbirds

Vietnamese Mossy Frog (Theloderma corticale), family Rhacophoridae, Vietnam

photograph by Diep Dai Tung

charnel-grounds

Julia Soboleva, “The burial of a green giant,” 2026

arcadefan

Cover artwork for Ork by the late British artist Richard Clifton-Dey. Psygnosis released Ork in 1991 for the Amiga and Atari ST.

The artwork, entitled Behemoth's World, was flipped and zoomed in a bit when it was originally used a decade earlier for Blue Öyster Cult's 7th album Cultösaurus Erectus.

#this art was used in a clip of How the World Begins and Ends by the Dears #if anyone saw that 8 years ago and it drove them crazy #now i have been trying to find THIS part for years because google broke so thank you x o x o

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent