I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Bold title, great video
Bold isn’t the goal though, getting people to change their minds is the goal.
This type of title sets us up to get lost in a semantic debate (is the incident a “massacre” or does a better word fit?) or argue a technicality (“no one died in the square itself”). These are the worst ways to convince people of anything: a skeptical person has endless outs, pinning down an objective answer to semantics is almost impossible, and by the time you get to more meaningful points you’ve wasted a lot of time, attention, and credibility.
Why is this guy advertising a service by an Israeli company that creates family tree and possibly weaponizes that data? That ad is creepy as fuck, and as a privacy-freak, sends shivers down my spine.
Yeah, I’ve heard reports from a person who is part of the Palestinian diaspora who took a genetic test and was unaware that the company they did it with was Israeli. They got back results stating that they were approximately 50% in a broad Arab category.
They redid their genetic test with a non-Israeli company and got a much more accurate Levantine result.
Make of that whatever you will. Maybe there’s differences in how they analyse the data but I would be wholly unsurprised if an Israeli genetic testing company was making a concerted effort to erase Palestinian identity by fudging results to skew the interpretation.
Need money to live ig. Probably the only company that wanted to sponsor a video this bold. Unfortunate that it’s israeli though…
If you’re actually seeing sponsor spots on YouTube that’s kinda a you problem
Without prior information about the company, one would consider it to be harmless, and not see for what it is: a mass-surveillance software. And look, fair point about ad revenue, but unfortunately, this could still cause real, irreversible damage.
Most people over here - well, on the internet in general, are tech-illiterate. Sure, they may “know” how to use a mouse, or a keyboard, or use apps but they don’t understand or take software licenses seriously - I mean, there’s anarchist and leftist power-users and software devs, who enforce copy-farleft and hippocratic licenses in their software, but non-tech people don’t understand the significance of FSF-approved licenses.
They also probably use operating systems, which run telemetry services behind the scene, as well as embed advertisement ids to track trends, collect and share them without the permission of the user. Everything is so fucked up.
He didn’t know it was an Israeli company and apologized in the comments
@YaBoiHakim 1 hour ago
I had no idea, I’ll cancel the planned integrations. The contact person that gets these ad integrations knows I don’t accept Israeli sponsors, so I assumed they checked. I’ll be sure to talk to them too, thanks for letting me know!
Video titles that I would upvote instantly for 100, please.
There is something deeply fucking funny about him doing a sponsored bit for MyHeritage at the start of this video.
They are not going to be happy at all lmaoooooooooo
