Hello there!

Many of you consider LBRY and Odysee as a good alternative to YouTube, because it does not track you, and does not do evil things.

Let me clear up your heads.

LBRY and Odysee still tracks you. It does still use an algorithm, that recommends you content. To be honest, it isn’t really different from YouTube. You need a phone number to verify, or other personal information. They use third-party components, to provide their services like Google AdSense. If it grows more, then we will get to the same point, what we have now with YouTube. (If they don’t make a change.)

From LBRY Inc. Privacy Policy:

How do we use your information?

  • We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested. To improve our website in order to better serve you.

Google

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet.

Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Just use new pipe on mobile and freetube on desktop and it basically fixes all the issues with YouTube.

Pure seeking profit in short term rather than long term with less profit but more engagement in community. Very dangerous company for open source alternatives (honeytrap)…

it’s also full of fascists a la rumble

The non-mainstream social media options will always be the ones with people with more extreme political views (on both sides of the spectrum).

Lemmy has a great deal of tankies. They seem less prominent now, because the influx of people from Reddit diluted them.

Ok, now too may things make scene for me

Werwolf
link
fedilink
243Y

Peertube is the way to go

PeerTube is the based alternative

Peertube is not librejs compliant though

@mim@lemmy.sdf.org
link
fedilink
1
edit-2
10M

Perfect is the enemy of good.

@Ephera@lemmy.ml has made a point that I would have made. The JS you receive server side is a blind trust affair either ways.

Ephera
link
fedilink
113Y

Possibly sacrilegious question, but what difference does it make here? The JavaScript that’s delivered to users is essentially a binary, and the source code to compile that binary is available. That’s how it’s done in other software, too.

And with PeerTube being under the AGPLv3, this also holds even when someone modifies the version of PeerTube that they host, as they have to make those changes available.

Create a post

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

  • Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
  • Don’t promote proprietary software
  • Try to keep things on topic
  • If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
  • Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
  • Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

  • 0 users online
  • 84 users / day
  • 537 users / week
  • 1.5K users / month
  • 6.58K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 2.32K Posts
  • 54K Comments
  • Modlog