• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    I mean, I do use YT as cloud storage for free. And before you say the “nothing is free line,” note my other replies.

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      6 days ago

      Nope. The admin of sh.itjust.works lets you use their storage for free. Google does not.

      There are things that are free, Youtube is not one of them.

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        5 days ago

        Okay, as I said in my other replies, the videos are unlisted, not monetized, and I don’t pay for it. What is not free about that?

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          5 days ago

          Is money is the only thing about yourself that you ascribe value to?

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              5 days ago

              Do you really not know how Google’s business model works, or are you playing dumb?

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                  5 days ago

                  I’ll say this.

                  When I weigh the choice of handing over my personal videos to a company that is explicitly and actively going to use them to:

                  • train and improve their massive corporate AI tools
                  • develop their targeted ad platform (which is their real product)
                  • build a comprehensive profile about me and my family

                  Or

                  Putting a NAS at a friends house, or paying a couple bucks a month for some block storage.

                  I end up preferring the second set of options. It’s fine if you don’t, but don’t pretend you have no idea that your personal videos and information are valuable to Google.