[BiteCode_dev]

Oh, but I'm OK with paying.

I paid for netflix, lastpass and zoom. I still pay for dynalist, audible or for having my own email address.

However, I'm not OK with having a logged in google account that accumulates everything I do into their DB and AI while I use their services.

Even when you pay, they still milk your private life.

And they have proved time after time they cannot be trusted with it.

[cromwellian]

Netflix also accumulates all of your watching habits and feeds it into AI while using their services.

[BiteCode_dev]

Netflix doesn't have an ubiquitous search engine, analytic scripts on half the web sites in the world, Android, gmail, maps, youtube, and so on.

Netflix business is not to accumulate data on you and resell it, or to display ads.

Netflix was not part of the PRISM program.

Netflix is not Google.

[baxtr]

Is that a bad thing if it helps you to find great new content?

[enkid]

Except most of what you "discover" is actually more of the same. That why we have so much divisiveness in our society, people are unknowingly in echo chambers so deep they don't know anything else exists.

[judge2020]

It's just not a great argument against YouTube since "accumulates everything I do into their DB and AI" is something both services do in the name of better recommendations.

[Aunche]

You can disable the the tracking on your account if you want with or without Youtube premium.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6139018?co=GENIE....

[BiteCode_dev]

I'm not going to trust google with that after a decade of terrible track record.

I don't believe one second there is a way to opt out of Google tracking you. At best, you can lower the settings on how much it displays the informations it has on you.

[Aunche]

I personally don't think that Google spend money to store your data if they aren't actively using it, though I can understand the sentiment. That said, you might as well switch it off if privacy is something you care about.