Youtube now is begging for you to log in ? You ever realized this ?

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[–]Ash 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

How did you notice that they tried to listen to your mic? It's scary...aren't they violating privacy laws? I better start to read their new terms and services.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I have some IOT devices that have youtube apps. Recently went through the settings and saw an option to turn off voice assistant or something like that. The reason I even bothered to check was I was seeing videos for stuff I was talking about NOT searching with text. This was happening to some degree with ads too. Some of the devices required google account log in so it could also have been google, android, Alexa, Siri, and whatever else they have phoning into their servers. Im speculating here, but I also suspect these companies have gotten so good at this that they can target these ads and stuff to other devices on the same network.

[–]Ash 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Your response is very appreciated. I don't have a clue about computer stuff. Maybe a tiny bit more than the gen population but still a newbie, ready to get fucked by internet people and the government. Thank you for taking the time to explain it to an computer retard and not being an ass about it..

Let's make it clear because I want to understand. My mic is always turned off but Google and other entities could find a way to enable my computer devices to listen to me, without my knowledge? How can I check and be sure? I don't have Alexa, Siri, a smart phone, use duckduckgo, never have used google chrome as a browser, use Tor and VPN without truly understanding those systems to minimize the risk of my home and life being infiltrated. It's a lost cause if you are basic like me-89% of us, and our name is not Anonymous.

My mic is usually turned off if I'm not on platforms requiring speech from person to person. Camera is also off and most of the times covered.

I was on Youtube for many years before Google forced me to make an account. How is it legal and big companies that want to control our lives are getting rewarded by the system? You either can't access the videos you have been collecting for over 10 years on your youtube account, or become part of the Google family. I swear, people are losing their shit about Facebook and not realizing that Google is the bigger and more dangerous cunt in the room.

I ignored their notifications about new policies. I think it was Google (I sometimes won't bother to separate YouTube and Google) first, notifying me of policy changes and later YouTube. OP is right. Fuckers are begging me to log in everytime I'm not in private surfing YouTube they'd beg me to log in.

I experienced similar things with reddit in the last Two weeks. They harass me to leave my email address since months now.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Well, I'm no computer expert. I just have my theories and messed around with some things. Technically it should be illegal for anyone to open your mic or camera without your consent. But if you remember what Snowden shared you know the possibility is there. Backdoors into routers have been a thing for sometime, PRISM, etc. WebRTC is a somewhat newer thing being build into browsers and apps. They are on by default for functionality. This allows outside access your mic and cam. I dont know much about it, I just turn it off. For IOT devices that rely on apps its not as easy to see all the details. User settings only show so much. Someone would have to reverse engineer or understand the code to really know. I guess you can check connections for out going IP addresses and do look ups to see. Also, in your browser if youre using uMatrix you can see what technologies/websites w/e the parent website is connecting you to. Google is knee deep in nearly everything. Facebook embeds itself in your systems as much as it can, at least it did when I used it years ago.

There was a video I saw where someone took 2 android phones. Put one in airplane mode and the other normal, walked around a busy part of town and then dumped the data on incoming and outgoing packets. The phone in airplane mode actually sent more data than the one connected to the cell towers. I dont recall the tech side of it too well, but it was something like hundreds of connections being made all giving bits user info.

This thing with youtube is probably them just trying to monetize more clicks. Forcing you to store a cookie or if you log in, for data mining. Again I'm no techie, Im just a guy with a computer.

[–]Ash 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Lol, you sound a lot like a tech guy.

I have to admit that I could only understand half of what you were saying but I get the gist. Camera is always off and with duc tape stuck over it. Mic is always off when I'm not on discord. Cookies are usually deleted after log out/closing my browsers.

My primary phone doesn't have bluetooth or the capability to go online, just text messages (no pictures) and phone calls. People call me dumb for my old school phone and for not being on whatsUp but the joke is on them.

I have to read the new Google (YouTube) policies and changes. Something is up. YouTube never asked me to log into my account in all those years. I'm glad that I already saved the content of my account. Reddit is also pissing me off with the constant harassment asking me for my email.

I know that they eventually get me or already got, one way or another. I wish I was more of a tech person. Hey, thanks for the information you gave me.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

To be honest I only understand about half of it too lol. Beyond having the devices off, meaning no apps using them, I think operating systems have the devices (to a degree) in a state of readiness. Which I suppose can be managed by the power settings...

Everytime youtube is asking me for login its storing 2 cookies the newer consent one and the other standard youtube cookie, which also btw has a consent rule in it. It's about tracking your browsing I'm sure.

EDIT: I want to share this funny anecdote. I was talking to someone about youtube and the possibility of it spying on me. Going on about how Alexa and Siri are always on and listening. Starting to feel like a crazy. After about an hour. While working at my desk. A message from Amazon pops up on my phone for an RFID pouch.

[–]Ash 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Why did you deleted your posts? There was nothing wrong with them in my opinion.

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    [–]Ash 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Why? There was nothing wrong with your posts. Did I miss something? @ s/magnora7?