My red flag would be showing them NewPipe, with recommendations turned completely off.
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.
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 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.
If that’s considered creepy then I’m john wayne gacy
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.
I’ve had the opposite response. Generally I get a “good on ya, I should really delete it too”
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.
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.
YSK you could also swipe single entries away in your Newpipe search history.
I just leverage playlists or bookmarks, typically. But while driving, I play my FLAC library off a thumbdrive.
Or switching profiles in GrapheneOS so I can look at my Google apps
The brain rotted mind doesn’t understand the lack of an infinite pit of o-face reaction videos to pick from.
Newpipe has recommendations?
Not even the wackiest scenario he’s done.
Bro legit took this one incredibly seriously and talked about the consequences of having to explain sudden freak accident deaths to pre-schoolers and how conspiracy theories would proliferate about Reagan being responsible because supposedly he had pushed for the launch to stay on schedule even when issues came up because the plan was for him to make s phone call to the crew of the ship from the SotU address that year.
Basically Reagan would go down in pop culture canon as being the man who murdered big bird, and whatever consequences that sprung from that would be the biggest shift vs present timeline instead of the obvious fact that big bird would be canonically dead since all the normal viewers would have seen him go up in a fireball and die.
Nah he’s a bird，he could fly on outta there. A little singed, maybe, if he dawdled
Allegedly, he screamed “wildcard, bitches” before kicking the door and jumping out.
Classic Big Bird
So what you are saying is that we would have flying cars and free healthcare if Big Bird had died in the Space Shuttle?
perhaps it would serve humanity greatly if I do not reproduce
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?!
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
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.
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?
But if it is collecting data on how to recommend video just to the account that is only used for YT, it seems like it is well partitioned.
“I only watch youtube through libretube, invidious and freetube”
Probably its own kind of red flag.
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!”
It’s called finding a shared interest!
“Your watch history is disabled”
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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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.
mine is half science and half whatever video game im trying to play so currently elden ring
mine is
Your watch history is off
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I have it that way on desktop and just changed my setting on mobile, I didn’t know I could do that without logging in. On desktop YT keeps watch history even if you tell YT not to, recommendations being relevant gives it away.
Same. If I go on a desktop browser sometimes it tries to trick me into re-enableing the history too.
I have ADHD.
someone opens my Youtube as a litmus test
“So we pray unto the holy beings that this child may not lose their way. For which many forsaken paths they may tred, nor what trends they may trod upon, that they alight on lightened road and partake only within golden rays.”
“Also, just, like…ignore that 3am Pokemon rabbit ahem hole I went down when overtired.”
If this video doesn’t exist, I’m going to be very disappointed.
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.
I actually have YouTube history turned off and rarely if ever watch something that I’m not subscribed to, namely, a maths nerd, two tech channels, some musical people and the guy who makes sausages.
Similar here. I don’t trust the algorithm and I’m not interested in outsourcing my attention and thinking to it.
🚩 “Seems like you have something to hide”
I’m intrigued: who is the guy who makes sausages?
Probably this guy https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinarySausage
I will be disappointed if it’s not this guy
It is that guy
The guy who makes sausages might be my favorite channel and I feel slightly deranged for it.
…also I hope we’re talking about the same sausageman. But really how many can there be?
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.
It’s not. I spend too much time vetting and blocking right wing channels despite never watching any while logged in.
I have watch history turned off precisely to avoid getting personal recommendations because they have always sucked for me
You’re correct. Judging people based on an algorithm your have no way of knowing is indeed a red flag ma’am.
My red flag would be telling her “fuck off creepy stranger”
