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Advertising your youtube channel needs to be banned (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by tenoto9124@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Lodra@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Well I guess I can offer a dissenting opinion on this one. YouTube video links are fine on Lemmy? I like watching a short video or two each day?

Yes, YouTube sucks for privacy. So I don’t have an account and use Firefox Focus to be anonymous. I do wish there were better alternatives to YouTube.

I don’t like ads and that includes people advertising a channel. But I haven’t personally seen this happen much on Lemmy. Maybe not all. I guess I don’t see why it needs to be banned.

Anyone else seeing things this way? Or am I missing something?

Edit:

I’ve thought about it more. I think I was indeed missing something. Is the complaint referring to all the posts that contain nothing but a YouTube link?

If that’s the case, I guess it’s a valid complaint. Doesn’t really bother me though. I just scroll on by the posts that don’t interest me

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Somewhat private way to watch YouTube: Piped. I believe the piped bot comments under everything with a YouTube link with an alternative link anyway. Just use that.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 0 points 10 months ago

Complerly agreed, except that YouTube has privacy issues if you know how to protect yourself.

One of the reasons I love YouTube is that there's no authwall, and there's tons of alternative front ends... So it's completely anonymous