172 points

My red flag would be showing them NewPipe, with recommendations turned completely off.

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And subscriptions using RSS feeds instead of a YouTube account.

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93 points

Guilty.

Having no actual presence on social media is considered “creepy” by modern social standards, instead of what I view it as: more secure.

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45 points

Having no actual presence on social media

I’ve got some bad news for you…

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12 points

If that’s considered creepy then I’m john wayne gacy

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11 points

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.

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7 points

I’ve had the opposite response. Generally I get a “good on ya, I should really delete it too”

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2 points

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.

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1 point

I actually got a date once by saying I had 10 laptop computers and no Facebook account. Not a good match in other regards, but the person was cool about privacy.

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19 points

They ask for your search history then

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60 points

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21 points

My browser clears private data at the end of every session.

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6 points

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.

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6 points

Or switching profiles in GrapheneOS so I can look at my Google apps

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The brain rotted mind doesn’t understand the lack of an infinite pit of o-face reaction videos to pick from.

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2 points

Newpipe has recommendations?

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2 points

It has “hot” but I don’t think the feed is personalized.

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92 points

Someone asking to see my YouTube recommendations is a good test for red flags, too. I’m not interested in a relationship with someone who will judge me based on an algorithm.

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A party is indeed the time and place where no jokes are made ever, no alcohol is involved, no cheesy flirting techniques occur, and everything is meant a 100% seriously always.

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13 points

Good point. I would have had to be there to see what the mood was like. She could have been funny as hell, and I’m just not picking it up from this tweet.

Edit: I just watched the video. It’s only about 8 minutes long. A great combination of funny and interesting. Recommended!

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7 points

I did not get invited either.

Probably for the best.

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4 points

It’s hard to convey tone with text.

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8 points

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23 points

The algorithm sucks anyway. I have to clear my cookies every couple days because all my recommendations starts to turn into weird manosphere stuff and DBZ videos. Sprinkled with a small amount of shit from channels I have watched recently.

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8 points

I’ve found that being really aggressive with my not interested/do not recommends keeps it down (but not absent). In my case I assume they pop up because I like watching history and gaming videos, even though I go out of my way to avoid anyone who’s dog whistle-y or chuddy.

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4 points

The topic and creator based clustering of multiple interests will pollute that anyway, because they don’t care about precision and just care about keeping your attention

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What is the reason for these two things to get grouped up and shoved down my feed? I’m a life long and very public activist for medical financial aid programs, public housing, sexual wellness, free kindergarten, hot meals, direct aid, take back the night, ada accomodations, needle exchanges, loan forgiveness, and just about every humane cause I know of. My viewing history is about as antithetical to Tate’s small dick energy as I can imagine and the anime I watch is more likely to be weird surreal stuff like Tengoku Daimakyou than some 50th year of dragon Ball

How does my feed switch from normal shorts to the incel only feed?!

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6 points

At best it’s because there’s just a shitload of other people that are into that stuff no matter what else they’re watching so everything ends up associated with it. At worst Youtube specifically funnels people to that kind of content.

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3 points

Clustering algorithms plus a focus on keeping your attention (watch time), not on quality

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2 points

I wish I knew what I was doing because I very rarely get that stuff, unless I go to Shorts. Then that crap shows up in both the Shorts and my recommendations. After ignoring them for a couple days they go away and stay away as long as I also avoid Shorts… So maybe that’s the key?

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Hey this person likes anime and political subjects. You know what audience also likes these things, and is most likely to watch/click ads? Manosphere, incel, altright, losers! Recommend some Andrew Tate and Lotus Eaters.

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2 points

Right wing propaganda receives heavy financial backing.

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2 points

Wait you also watch DBZ highlights and wonder what super Saiyan Piccolo would have looked like? 😍

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2 points

No. So why do they keep coming up to me? Nothing against DBZ btw.

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1 point

The last time I saw a DBZ episode there was only one set of dragon balls and the animation was 8-12 frames a second. Now it seems like everyone is immortal, there is a multiverse, and Goku can clown on actual gods for the lols.

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9 points

Why do so many people on Lemmy take things way too seriously

This is clearly meant to be a small tease for fun, and you’re telling them to fuck off lol

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No context. What seems obvious to one person doesn’t come across that way to another. Plus, this is the internet. We see too many people who would do this seriously.

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8 points

Most of my browser history, youtube and podcast recommendations etc. are benign.

My fear is when they ask the question “when does VR Porn become cheating?” Because I don’t think anyone can answer that one honestly and the way one would expect.

Like my brain would say “when you can smell it” but that leads down a lot of other questions that scare me.

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IMO if you ever ask someone whether porn is cheating, you should probably be put into an asylum and studied, because i cannot for the life of me figure out why someone would give a shit, unless it’s a shared mutual agreement between two parties, in which case, you probably wouldn’t ask that question.

It’s almost as insane as asking whether or not touching your dick counts as masturbation or not.

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“when does VR Porn become cheating?”

The same point anything else does. It’s when you’re getting involved with another person and your partner is not cool with that. If you’re just consuming media it’s not cheating.

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65 points

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.

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Nah he’s a bird,he could fly on outta there. A little singed, maybe, if he dawdled

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14 points

Allegedly, he screamed “wildcard, bitches” before kicking the door and jumping out.

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8 points

Classic Big Bird

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8 points

So what you are saying is that we would have flying cars and free healthcare if Big Bird had died in the Space Shuttle?

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52 points

perhaps it would serve humanity greatly if I do not reproduce

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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.

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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?!

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17 points

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.

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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.

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4 points

Librewolf has this built in.

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4 points

Any guide on how to enable this feature?

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On Librewolf the default is all cookies get cleared. When you go to a site you want to save cookies for, you can easily add it to the whitelist by clicking the lock icon in the URL bar and toggling on the “Keep cookies” option.

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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.

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0 points

Why deactivate recommendations instead of being logged into YouTube using an email that exists only for the YT account?

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4 points

Because it does nothing for privacy?

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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.

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