1 minute videos aren’t put into the shorts interface, so it’s not YouTube noticing that you disabled shorts but rather some YouTuber trying to follow the algorithm using a channel they made for shorts and mistakenly (I assume) uploading a video longer than minute on it. All such videos appear as normal videos instead of as shorts.

Google is terrible though, so I understand why you would think that.

I don’t understand the pro privacy argument as well as I would like to, and feel like if I were to lose mental faculties which works like an intuition in regards to why this can be bad I might end up on the opposite side.

I am writing this comment to invite explanations which can work on even the most naive person to someone with a higher level of understanding. Also because usually these reasons are given to bad faith actors or in a heated argument, so they don’t get to be as well put together (or at least that’s been my experience and why I feel I don’t understand it as well as should by now)

P.S. I’m Pro privacy just to be clear

Tbf Google is also a weird name, Yahoo was also a bit weird even if not entirely, there probably are more examples but it’s not just that the name is not great but also that these things aren’t advertised as well

I was disagreeing that a backdoor can ever be secure, because by definition it’s a way to bypass security protocols and if one person can bypass them, there’s no guarantee others can’t too.

As compared to a secure backdoor?

ddg relies on Bing so it isn’t really comparable, idk about kagi’s costs but they claim 1.2 cent per search and an average of 700 searches per month (as what they are serving and hence pricing for)

So encryption was always a recipe for potatoes

Quick I’ll name another one!!!… North America! Oh crap… Antarctica!…

In this case they don’t fight, they exploit your data in different ways and if one of the exploiters isn’t arsed to keep your data secure then everyone gets it and it’s not just corporate actors profiting from you but more harmful actors including scammers using your data.

For those who can’t go this far, there are ad blocking DNS services (although you’ll have to trust the provider instead of relying on yourself)

It should start happening soon after DMA comes into action