A few days back I watched a SomeOrdinaryGamers video, in which he states to drive a Tesla car, despite expressing the obvious privacy concerns surrounding the built-in camera system; but doesn’t seem to consider the privacy-impact to those around the vehicle, he chooses to drive through public streets. And another example being Rob Braxman, while ironically, both known to frequently criticize other public-facing, internet connected surveillance systems (like Ring for example).
If it was “just” a cabin camera, staring you straight in the face every time you drive your car (and you’re somehow okay with that), it would still be a terrible look in context with your channel content, but at least it is contained to you personally. But knowingly driving these surveillance nightmares on wheels through public streets, subjecting others to that surveillance, while you represent pro-privacy channels online, is just inexcusably hypocritical to me. But perhaps it might just be me, so what are your thoughts?
Yeah, but I guess YouTube is where their target demographic lives: the big-tech user, possibly interested in changing their habits (instead of a privacy-conscious demographic: long aware of most which is being discussed). In the best case scenario they actively promote alt-platforms, but most of them rarely receive any attention from the creator. Naomi Brockwell quite actively engages on Odysee, and I’ve seen Rob Braxman engage as well, which is something respect worthy; unlike Techlore having comments disabled on all his videos, for some reason. I also find it remarkable they’re strongly advocating against “age” verification, however YouTube having been a forerunner of this by years (requiring submission of your government issued ID, in order to view age-restricted content: you know, some album cover with something possibly falsely flagged as a nipple, or heaven forbid a naughty track title…), as far as I’m aware, not actively being scrutinized; or at least not in any meaningful way.