▲ 72 ▼ YouTube confirms 3-strike policy for blocking ads (www.androidauthority.com) submitted 3 years ago by StandardIssueCalzone@lemmy.one to c/technology@beehaw.org 141 comments fedilink hide all child comments Whelp, here we go again
[–] wim@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 years ago (2 children) Moral of the story: create separate account for YouTube that has no high value services or data on it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] chahk@beehaw.org 3 points 3 years ago I've seen enough horror stories to know that's not going to help. They can, and do, associate multiple accounts to same users. Be it by cookies, IP addresses, or dark magic, the end result is the same - they can upend your entire digital life if they want to. r/degoogle better hurry up and migrate to Lemmy. permalink fedilink source parent [–] rho50@lemmy.nz 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I’d argue the bigger moral is that you should always own your online identity. You should buy your own domain (@yourname.xyz or something like that) and make your email on that. So if Google bans you, you just switch email providers and keep your address. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wim@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 3 years ago I've been using @fixnum.org and since a few years the alias @wim.land to do exactly this, but that's just email. My app purchases, photo storage, and YouTube account are all entangled in this. I could decouple from Google, but it would be very painful. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chahk@beehaw.org 3 points 3 years ago I've seen enough horror stories to know that's not going to help. They can, and do, associate multiple accounts to same users. Be it by cookies, IP addresses, or dark magic, the end result is the same - they can upend your entire digital life if they want to. r/degoogle better hurry up and migrate to Lemmy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rho50@lemmy.nz 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I’d argue the bigger moral is that you should always own your online identity. You should buy your own domain (@yourname.xyz or something like that) and make your email on that. So if Google bans you, you just switch email providers and keep your address. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wim@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 3 years ago I've been using @fixnum.org and since a few years the alias @wim.land to do exactly this, but that's just email. My app purchases, photo storage, and YouTube account are all entangled in this. I could decouple from Google, but it would be very painful. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wim@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 3 years ago I've been using @fixnum.org and since a few years the alias @wim.land to do exactly this, but that's just email. My app purchases, photo storage, and YouTube account are all entangled in this. I could decouple from Google, but it would be very painful. permalink fedilink source parent