#google boycott

[caktusjuice-draws]

HEY YOU! PSST, YEAH YOU!

YOU WANT TO DE-GOOGLE YOUR LIFE, BUT UNSURE HOW?

Here are some suggestions!

PROTONMAIL - Protonmail is an encrypted email service, they also offer a free encrypted VPN! You can even have your gmail emails forwarded there!

DUCKDUCKGO - the search engine of choice. They don't track your searches and you can turn off their ai features in settings, you can also choose to filter out ai images in searches

FIREFOX - For browsing on phone and tablet. Only slightly better than chrome but it works, open to better suggestions!

LIBREWOLF - For browsing on desktop! Dedicated to user privacy and safety.

If you have more suggestions please reblog and share!

[alunafort]

Today, in "Google doesn't know when to freaking stop"

Starting in September of next year, Google will be making sideloading apps on your Android pretty much unusable. Starting in September of next year, Google will be requiring all app developers to "verify" who they are by submitting their ID to Google so they can make sure you are "not a threat to the public". Doing this will give Google the power over what you download onto your phone because if the Dev is not verified and on their "approved dev list," you will not be allowed to download it. They are also charging the devs a fee when they are forced to register.

It is getting so exhausting that companies keep doing this stuff. How long until we have to verify our age to download any app in general? How long until we have to verify our ID just to buy a pair of pants?

Edit: I wanted to clarify a little. This Google change will role out in countries like Brazil, Singapore, and Thailand next year before they make the change worldwide

[gentleman-velvet]

The CEO of YouTube has now talked about age verification

video: https://mega.nz/file/zI1RmRJB#gWlWAIix0AxXs0YjfjuzGG2InIrlzneDwHJkA-2-gKo

The CEO basically argues that the system is due to government regulation and because of protecting children. But the issue there is that YouTube shouldn't be the one protecting the children, but it should be the parents protecting the children, not YouTube.

So YouTube would basically be doing the parents job of protecting the children. Even though YouTube already have things like YouTube kids (which Neal (the CEO) acknowledges in the interview) which could act as a safe version of YouTube.

He also says that the age verification system will get better, but he believes it's already a positive thing for creators. Which is weird, because I have seen multiple reports of views being down the day of the age verification being put into place

source: the internet is dead by game theory: https://mega.nz/file/ORNlXSRK#EG-ENXZ_s6gdwGqWIffJ9Ou2_L2nHvxcn5gZP4SI3Ds

So Neal clearly doesn't know what he's talking about because the age verification literally caused a massive dip in views for so many YouTubers (big or small)

Lastly, he talks about how the ID verification is supposed to act as an escape valve for when the system does mess up. Which as the channel deep humor pointed out, it's basically like YouTube made the mistake and we're having to pay for it with our privacy and government ID.

It's a horrible trade because it makes us feel like our privacy is being taken away because YouTube's AI decided to be an AI and mess up (plus it's not like it a unique thing for the YouTube AI to mess up, look at all of the videos that were marked "for kids" on YouTube, despite being clearly not for kids)

So yeah, I don't really agree with most of what Neal is saying in this video

[youtube-privacy-union]

The YouTube ban wave is still going on, but some are reporting that they are getting demonetized due to “harmful content involving minors” even though no children can be seen in these videos

People have been trying to reach out to YouTube to get their channel reinstated, but often the appeals take about 3 minutes and come to the same conclusion. Which makes everyone think that YouTube is using AI to check if their AI messed up.

Even their tweet responses might be using AI

Some channels have been reinstated, but it’s only a small fraction of channels. The current number seemly being about 5 million channels terminated over false spam.

Deep humor has made a video on this, which you can download here or watch it preservetube

YouTube's AI Moderation is DANGEROUS. | PreserveTube

35.85 MB file on MEGA

[coolcurt452]

Here's your daily reminder to keep boycotting YouTube. Do not give them anything. Do not give them a single second of watch time or ad revenue. Cut them off completely bleed them dry and make them adhere to our demands and recognize all creators equally instead of this bias b*******.

[anonymousfog101]

This is a reminder to NEVER share your ID, credit card, or face to strangers on the internet!

You know, the thing we were taught as children to never share, especially after we become adults.

YouTube and Google do, in fact, count as strangers on the internet. Do not succumb to their tricks. Their "age verification" AI is not to protect children. If you ever believed that, you're simply gullible. It is for money and power, for profit and control. It is a scam and a violation of your privacy and safety. They are only going to sell your information if you are willing to give it to them, as they've always done and always will, and your information will be somewhere on the internet where it can easily be hacked into and stolen.

Do not give YouTube or Google your personal information.

Update: This now applies to Discord too! Their asses just got caught red-handed selling personal information related to your face and ID to AI! They literally LIED TO YOUR FUCKING FACES and we found out about it immediately because their security is fucking ASS.

IF ANY WEBSITE FORCES YOU TO SHARE YOUR ID, FIND A DIFFERENT WEBSITE. DO NOT COMPLY. DO NOT BE MANIPULATED.

[woomysans]

Can somebody please hurry up and sue Google already? Demanding users give their personal information just to prove that they're adults across all its products when the risk of data breaches exist is just BEGGING for a lawsuit.

As much as I'd like to change email holders, Proton costs money to maintain yearly and I currently do not have a job to maintain keeping an email on it. Yahoo lowered its storage space from 1 terabyte to 20 gigabytes and shares your emails with US National Security.

Also this has nothing to do with the above, but the fact you have to pay just to keep a site running is bullshit and should not be necessary.

[quantumboogaloo]

Guys jsyk, Google as a whole is apparently doing the same thing with the ai age-estimation or age-verification policy

Google's AI age verification spotted spreading beyond YouTube

Your Google Search experience might soon be interrupted by an AI age verification pop-up

I'm in the middle of switching away from Google right now

fuck this shit