Говно YouTube

[Anonymous]

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San
Bruno, California. It is owned by Google.

Spyware Level: EXTREMELY HIGH

Google's business strategy with YouTube relies on tracking user's
device identifiers, location, search history, IP addresses and other
personally identifying data to provide to advertisers. Google discloses
in their YouTube privacy policy that it collects many types of personal
information, including geolocation, unique device identifiers, mobile
telephone numbers, and persistent identifiers used to recognize a user
over time and across different websites or online services.

Integration with Google Tracking

YouTube is integrated with Google's suite of advertising technologies
and services, including AdWords, DoubleClick, and Google Preferred.
DoubleClick is "an advertising serving and tracking company that uses
web cookies to track browsing behavior online by their IP address to
deliver targeted ads. Other DoubleClick ad technologies used to target
YouTube users include the Campaign Manager, which helps advertisers
"identify, locate and understand your customers, wherever they are."

You can find that Google operates tracking domains active on the
YouTube page, "pubads.g.doubleclick.net" and
"googleads.g.doubleclick.net" in addition to three cookies requested by
*.youtube.com. YouTube serves a particular tracking cookie,
"VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE" in order to continue monitoring users that have
signed out of their account and to continue serving recommended videos
related to that session. Of course, while you are logged in to any
Google service, Google can track you with absolute precision.

The YouTube app for android additionally uses the Google Firebase
Analytics tracker which provides methods for logging events and setting
user properties. The full app report finds that the YouTube app employs
three trackers and requires 33 permission, 14 of which are considered
dangerous such as access to the user's location and contacts.

Taking down more private alternatives

For some time, a popular YouTube tracking sanitizer, Hooktube.com was a
useful resource for accessing YouTube videos without being subjected to
Google's surveillance techniques in full. Hooktube was also useful for
circumventing region blocking. However, Google, not to be stopped in
their spying endeavors, served Hooktube's operators with a cease and
desist over their use of the YouTube API. Hooktube was effectively
forced to use YouTube's official embedded player if they wished to
continue to operate, nullifying Hooktube as a viable means for
privately viewing YouTube content.

YouTube Requires non-free JavaScript

It is also worth noting that, in order to function, YouTube requires
visitors to run non-free JavaScript. As with any proprietary software,
these programs can be doing just about anything with almost no way to
determine exactly what. For example, there has been some speculation as
to whether YouTube's compulsory JavaScript might be useful for YouTube
to track your device's unique MAC address.

All that said, it would be wise to avoiding using any of Google's
services. If you must access YouTube, we recommend doing so through one
of the remaining sanitizers such as Invidious (https://www.invidio.us).
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