De-Google Your Life - Part 1
De-Google Your Life - Part 1
You're viewing a single thread.
Warning: It's Linus Sebastian
Thank you, I was about to click.
Drama llama response. 🙄
... on YouTube.
This is piped.
Which streams YouTube content. He posted it to YouTube, piped just removes ads from YouTube videos.
it also proxies the video and blocks trackers iirc, giving you some form of anonymity from Google
Right, but the point is that this is about de-Googling, and the video wast posted to a Google-owned site by someone who makes their livelihood from Google.
Piped and similar services are cool, it's just a weird conflict of interest.
It's arguably the best place to reach the people who most need degoogling
Is it though? How likely is someone who watches that video to actually degoogle? He uses windows almost exclusively (Microsoft tracks you), shows benchmarks from games with DRM, recommends products that track you (e.g. Meta headsets), etc.
I'm not saying it's bad that he's doing it, I'm just saying it's ineffective. How many of these products does he actually use? Why should I trust his recommendations if he's not actually living a degoogled life?
I see it as lipservice for views, that's it. If he was really serious about it, I think he'd make his videos available on other services (and not just floatplane, that's a money grab).
I trust Louis Rossmann far more, because he:
- uses the products he recommends
- fights for real, legal change related to privacy
- makes his videos available on Odyssee
That last one is a little self-serving because he's pushing his app Grayjay, but paying for the app is optional and no features are locked behind paying.
So I'm not gong ri applaud LTT for making this video. The intent is to drive clicks and ad revenue. I don't think that's bad, I just don't think it's worthy of commendation. If you want a better mainstream channel for this, check out Naomi Brockwell. She's quite pleasant to listen to and covers far more than LTT or Louis Rossmann ever would.
The video is on Floatplane (paid service)