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Privacy@lemmy.world : Do you count switching from official YouTube apps to watch YouTube as having "de-googled" from YouTube? (lemmy.world)
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If you quit YouTube then you also quit all the content on YouTube that isn't elsewhere. The best solution if you still want to use it is to use 3rd party apps. Personally I would actually count that as having no reliance on Google in particular anymore. If a video platform owned by Google wasn't the most popular then it would be another platform. I don't think you should think of 3rd party apps as YouTube frontends, but rather, apps that scrape videos hosted on Google's servers.

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago

I count it as "good enough" for now.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't. Most YouTube alternatives that hook into YouTube for content are always going to be in the tenuous position of "It works until Google decides to drastically change things."

I think it'd be easier to not become dependent on YouTube's content in the first place when there is always that chance they pull the rug out from everyone.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't count using YouTube scrapers as de-googling because Google might make it break some day? That makes no sense.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Why is that? It's Google's content you're still consuming, ergo you have at least some measure of dependence on Google to continue accessing it.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 1 month ago

"De-googled" is just a word. And it doesn't really apply here. Like the word "banana" also doesn't apply to what I do on my phone... The interesting question is: What is your goal? What are you trying to achieve? YouTube still sends you the data. And they log your requests. But you don't have an App anymore that is designed by Google to track you some more and make the ad playback more smooth...

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee -3 points 1 month ago

Ok buddy.