For users who watch videos, odysee doesn’t look good: infested with GoogleTagManager and/or GA, tracking people with sentry_key, etc. Using piped or maybe random instances of Invidious feels a better idea. For authors, though, escaping from Google is very important (anyone who can’t see this intuitively without even thinking, is not an artist).
Anyway… in one year or so, as soon as Monero->Fiat via CEX is regulated more tightly (if not banned), many of those companies now accepting xmr will probably stop accepting it. Then, perhaps we’re having some interesting experiments.
Buying gift cards with xmr may be a necessary evil, self-contradicting, not really circular, only introducing another kind of middle-man. Services like proxy stores do make sense, though—irl privacy is unfortunately not free-of-charge by default, so one may have to pay to “buy” it.
@Saki @tusker I happen to know the CEO of LBRY/Odyssee. He was very upfront about Odyssee being an ad-generation/metadata-sales company, when it was created in the face of LBRY slowly losing money.
Incredibly perverse, given Odyssee’s marketing. Kinda like those slimy VPN companies that do protect you from your local Internet carrier… but not from their own advertising & tracking.
Ad/tracker blocker solves this. How people are still not using them I do not understand.
@dragonsidedd @tusker Obviously it’s important for people not to depend (too much) on YouTube, but it’s also risky to assume that another platform is “good” just because it’s not YouTube.
Also, while uBlock is very good, I don’t think it blocks (by default) GoogleTagManager or Google Fonts or JS provided by Google, because many web sites will stop working properly if everything Google is blocked and average users don’t like that (They’re still blissfully using Google search after all). Once a monopolizer starts controlling things, it’s not easy to undo that. (Cloudflare is also polluting > 10% of the websites now, getting worse and worse.)
Good points, it is best to use a privacy focused browser not just an extension. Mullvad browser or Brave, they have additional anti-tracking features.
Odysee does not censor or shadow ban like YT, and has crypto integration, so it is a better alternative not just because it’s not YT.
As for search, google and even duckduckgo is complete trash, if you search for anything controversial it will never show you anything but mainstream approved info.
Presearch.com or search.brave.com are better
