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@powerful_people-p7o
September 18, 2025 at 2:42 pm
Not a monopol at all 😅
@hoofhearted4
September 18, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Its why I’m happy to use Brave for a Browser and a Search, ProtonMail instead of Gmail, Mega instead of Drive, GrapheneOS instead of Google Android, OSM instead of Maps, etc. Yes, I’m here on YT, but thats one of like 10 other Google sources.
@sabthdog248
September 18, 2025 at 2:54 pm
Im watching this on brave now
@MatthewRickard
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 pm
While I do agree with this being good information that people need to be more aware about. I think you missed an opportunity when letting people know they can go to other services to inform them on how to vet those services. It is not great to jump to another service that says they protect you only for that service to change it’s mind or get bought by another company and then all the data is sold. Be careful when trusting the smaller companies that will say anything to get you and then flip when the money is right.
@Blacksmith811
September 18, 2025 at 3:09 pm
I just close my eyes when ads show. That’s quite effective to block all ads.
@Viewer92384
September 18, 2025 at 3:33 pm
What about safari and general apple products?
@globalroamer2003
September 18, 2025 at 3:33 pm
DuckDuckGo
@rja62b
September 18, 2025 at 3:35 pm
im just genuinely surprised business and companies still spend money advertising on youtube knowing most people turn off their brains when they play and pay to skip ads.
@sailorstarfairy1
September 18, 2025 at 3:40 pm
The problem is, even if you switch to other products, THEY will eventually do the same as Google.
@LionessDragon-k4x
September 18, 2025 at 3:45 pm
I had to buy a new phone and was forced to open up/use a google account to use it I am so angry. On my old phone i did delete Goggle store and afterwards nothing was working anymore. Still searching for alternatives … Glad Africa is having his own network now, I might will find a solution here in Switzerlanld
@teri2466
September 18, 2025 at 3:51 pm
Google doesn’t know me. I’ve had accounts with them for 25 years. I’ve always turned off tracking of any kind, rarely used chrome, use vpns, prevaricated about personal info, etc. They serve me ads for stuff I would never buy 😂
@jeraimee
September 18, 2025 at 4:29 pm
AdGuard app in vpn mode on iOS works wonders.
@infinitemonkey917
September 18, 2025 at 4:33 pm
Firefox and Duckduckgo are also good alternatives.
@christian-v2000
September 18, 2025 at 4:43 pm
Who cares to opt out … why would I want irrelevant ads ?
@Sam-u7u
September 18, 2025 at 5:00 pm
I mean sure, but what’s so bad about that? I’m not a google employee, i just use their stuff, as long as they don’t get to the private stuff like pictures and dms, then who cares if i get ads about the stuff that i like based on my browsing history?
@gameeverything816
September 18, 2025 at 5:15 pm
Hey its the everyday astronaut!😆
@Lacze__na__Odysee__Mastodon
September 18, 2025 at 5:29 pm
*I use*
*- GrapheneOS*
*- Vanadium with DuckDuckGo*
*- Tutanota*
*- Odysee*
*- CoMaps*
*- Mastodon*
*- Signal*
*- Simplex*
@DerpyDerp0125
September 18, 2025 at 6:02 pm
low-key advertising brave 👀
@robgandy4550
September 18, 2025 at 6:10 pm
Nicely presented. Used Google for many moons. They get bad cookie information as I intentionally mess all cookies up. (Change their data for fun) They can have the cookies I make. Grin
@pawlowski6132
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 pm
They can have all my my data. Why not? What do I care? If I get something good back why not
@Virtual-Media
September 18, 2025 at 6:23 pm
Cancel all connected accounts, throw away all devices, dig a hole, jump in, have random stranger fill the hole.
@logikgr
September 18, 2025 at 6:50 pm
Figure out how to take out stranger so that no witnesses remain. Make sure to do it all under aluminum canopy so that 5G signals cannot track you, and satellites cannot image you. Make sure you mine and smelt your own aluminum so that your large purchase of 50 rolls of foil can’t be tracked to you.
@photon434
September 18, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Companies have been collecting information on us for so long that we’ve become desensitized to it, and the risks that it carries. It’s not just because they are getting rich off of advertising to us–it’s what they could potentially do with this information. We have laws against the government collecting our information, but we seem to think this information is harmless in the hands of companies.
Computers are supposed to help us, but instead, they hold us to standards that only computers are capable of. We read the privacy policies and user updates that don’t summarize the constant updates– well, maybe we read them…Right. We take a small degree of control by turning off settings on our devices, only to find them quietly restored after the next update.
The only way to be secure is to go off the grid, but maybe that isn’t secure either. The truth is, everyone’s winging it in a world where technology has the upper hand. Sure, you can opt out–but you’ll pay for it socially and functionally. We never really had a choice, because technology was like a drug to the vast majority. It changed our reality, and forced us to comply or become a disconnected outsider unable to participate in much of society.
But here’s the deeper problem: we’ve handed over control to systems that evolve beyond our reach. Our information floats in a virtual cloud, and we don’t know how big it will grow, what future tech will do with it, or who will be pulling the strings.
@BrianPerry-f1o
September 18, 2025 at 7:26 pm
I just use an ad blocker
@breal1
September 18, 2025 at 7:54 pm
I’ve opted out of everything on Google and they still track my searches and pages I visit. I finally got sick of it and switched to Brave. Brave search is not as good as Google but at least I’m not being cyber-stalked anymore.
@jaredsimpsonacn
September 18, 2025 at 9:09 pm
Who actually cares. Its a service we use for free, let them do whatever they want with the info.
@diw92ifnqowj29akg9fj
September 19, 2025 at 5:14 am
This video is already being shadowbanned. Not surprised at all
@udoyxyz
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 am
I think we should ask for a cut for out data
@roxette6
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 am
So you know who are the real government around the world
@michaelrodrigues80
September 19, 2025 at 7:32 am
This is necessary Public Service Announcement.
@Proud-R
September 19, 2025 at 7:43 am
I would choose free stuff over anonymity
@Secondone-l9x
September 19, 2025 at 6:39 pm
The point is, you don’t have to. Most of the anon tools are free.
@cz2301
September 19, 2025 at 8:51 am
Not buying things online must be a good tip too
@supermanggggg
September 19, 2025 at 8:55 am
Gov favorite go to
@supermanggggg
September 19, 2025 at 8:57 am
Android OS connects to Google servers even if you do a hard reset on the phone and even before you setup your phone. It send s data to google every 14 minutes, uploads phone location etc…
@tylerdurden3618
September 19, 2025 at 9:32 am
Lol Nobody is forcing you to use it, go ahead and delete all your Google accounts
@OurtelevisionEmailaccount-m5b
September 19, 2025 at 9:39 am
Remember folks, watching ads on YT is not mandatory, it’s an OPTION! Brave browser will solve this problem. I’ve not seen a Google ad in years!
@eltedelarosa
September 19, 2025 at 9:44 am
I was wondering how the algorithm reads my mind (exact same question). Then this vid appeared on my feed.
@AndogaSpock
September 19, 2025 at 10:09 am
Could you do an episode about the keyboard app?
@wyktron
September 19, 2025 at 10:41 am
My line-up is Brave, Signal, Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Pass, NextDNS, KDE Neon, Self-hosted Immich and Deepseek/Gemma
@AldrichMartinAldrich-m8v
September 19, 2025 at 11:02 am
I Hit $32,590 today. Thank you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last month.i started with 5k in last week 2025….. now i just hit $32,590
@changjnnun
September 19, 2025 at 11:04 am
How did you manage to achieve that level of growth? I’ve been trying everything I can to improve my investments, I want to retire in a few years and I need a better diversification
@AldrichMartinAldrich-m8v
September 19, 2025 at 11:05 am
One of the most well-known people in her field is my CFA,Cherry Smith..I suggest looking into her qualifications in more detail. With her extensive knowledge, she is a great help to anyone trying to understand the financial market.Investment
@JeffreyWerner-c9h
September 19, 2025 at 11:08 am
Ms Cherry Smith trading is the best way of making money in the market due to lack of experience which resulted in loosing funds.But miss Cherry Smith, restored hope shes a good woman
@JayisWalter
September 19, 2025 at 11:10 am
She is my family’s personal Broker and also a personal Broker to many families in the Canada , she is a licensed broker and a FINRA AGENT in the United States.
@Greenwill-q3t
September 19, 2025 at 11:13 am
please educate me, l’ve come across this name before, Now i’m interested
@imajez1
September 19, 2025 at 11:17 am
Except Google and Facebook are in my experience, simply terrible at targeted/personalised ads. They don’t even seem to know my gender, let alone anything else, it’s actually rare to see a relevant ad. I do however bin cookies wherever possible, but even so both services do actually know my gender and yet ads are as irrelevant as generic TV or poster adverts.
Seeing ads that are of relevance isn’t actually a bad thing in one sense. Not having to put up with ads that are of zero interest is less crap when having them foisted upon you.
Oh and upping ad volume during ad breaks, simply means people hit the mute button. Something advertisers bafflingly seem to still struggle with, is that ads that are annoying are counter productive. I never watch live TV on commercial channels. I record them and skip the ads. Also saves 15mins per hour.
@TarotSymbolism
September 19, 2025 at 11:24 am
🎉🎉🎉🎉
@GerryBlue
September 19, 2025 at 12:57 pm
That’s why Google, who owns youtube, allows this video to be here, they are collecting our data, they know we watched this
@jntnlima
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Which cellphones to use in this world dominated by Google (Android) and Apple (iOS)? 😢
@Secondone-l9x
September 19, 2025 at 6:37 pm
Change the operating system, not the phone. Plenty of alternatives that are android based without sending the data back to google servers.
@visualglitch91
September 19, 2025 at 3:04 pm
I never understand why you guys change the camera angle to the top of his head
@glowpaw9
September 19, 2025 at 4:34 pm
Hey Google, look what I’m watching.
@orlin_Chirinos
September 19, 2025 at 5:08 pm
Data collection is a billion dollar business
@u12bdragon
September 19, 2025 at 5:56 pm
1:09 *global MOBILE os market share
@jamesklusener
September 19, 2025 at 7:37 pm
more videos like this please!!!
@Biscotti.
September 19, 2025 at 8:57 pm
Been using Brave for almost a year now. Built-in ad blocker is a nice touch and there aren’t any noticeably absent features that I miss. And then my Android phone betrays that effort 😅
@CharliiCavanagh-b2w
September 19, 2025 at 9:24 pm
Firefox with Ad blockers and customized settings gives me zero ads and very little tracking which I wipe. It can be done.
@Questionmarks237
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 pm
Great video, thanks.
@DeborahLefever-g2c5u
September 19, 2025 at 10:14 pm
Yeah and when they say something’s free, make sure you read the barrage of very tiny print. Nothing’s free believe me.
@Misty-EquiptmentManager
September 20, 2025 at 12:09 am
my favourite part of the video was the part where you didn’t show us how to opt out
@rallikaari
September 20, 2025 at 12:41 am
its good im useful for somebody
@zubin2562
September 20, 2025 at 12:45 am
I want to give google as much money
As google gives me privacy
@Okolaa
September 20, 2025 at 1:59 am
I think policy making is more important for privacy. I cant trust smaller companies either to do what they say, someways, bigger is better if the right policies are in place.
@anders630
September 20, 2025 at 3:57 am
There is a difference between using the google browser and google tools (mail, maps etc).
Switching to Firefox (with myblock) or Brave solves most brower issues.
@ssj1260
September 20, 2025 at 5:40 am
Brave is still build on Chromium, which is owned by Google. Just use firefox.
@TheSecondPremise
September 20, 2025 at 5:56 am
Google is also promoted by corporations and countries. Google became the default a long time ago. It is what it is.
@LToPowerOf3
September 20, 2025 at 6:37 am
You missed something.
@catalystcomet
September 20, 2025 at 7:19 am
0:35 takes some audacity to call a 9-minute video a deep dive
@goldenhawk9322
September 20, 2025 at 10:05 am
If they’re not harming me and making money off me legimitaely, I’m happy to let them earn. As a matter of fact, I should throw money into their stock.
@MrKaystew
September 20, 2025 at 10:48 am
Not me with a Pixel phone 💀
@Chic-A-Dee
September 20, 2025 at 12:13 pm
Why use a pic of the presenter looking like this 😮 in the thumbnail? It’s weird.
@Buddha-Ed
September 20, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Nice video 🎉
@BradThePitts
September 20, 2025 at 12:55 pm
The best part of this video is that vintage This Old House t-shirt!
@peace-or2cp
September 20, 2025 at 1:32 pm
I use no google products (that i know of!)and now know why my uber and waze apps break. Nice.
@eliasmai6170
September 20, 2025 at 5:45 pm
we get to use Google for free, they have to find ways to pay their bills
@a_nyon
September 20, 2025 at 6:28 pm
_Proton Mail, DuckDuckGo, & Murena Phones_ MAKE THE SWITCH!
@Justin-TPG
September 20, 2025 at 6:32 pm
Google owns internet cables. Slurp, slurp, slurp, not just your data but all of it. Even if it’s encrypted, they’ll store it until they can use it.
@MrPants-xy6db
September 20, 2025 at 7:03 pm
Librewolf (based on Firefox) has pretty good fingerprinting protection, and uBlock Origin as standard. It’s a start.
@thomaschan8844
September 20, 2025 at 7:04 pm
Hilariously, every time the presenter came to a full stop and took a breath, Youtube served me two adds… the long ones.😃
@thomaschan8844
September 20, 2025 at 7:04 pm
Hilariously, every time the presenter came to a full stop and took a breath, Youtube served me two ads… the long ones.😃
@koohanpaik-mander7567
September 20, 2025 at 8:10 pm
GET OFFLINE = OLIGARCHS SHRIVEL.
@marketads1
September 20, 2025 at 8:48 pm
Unregulated or for sure under-regulated capitalism has killed America. We’re at the bottom of a humungous pyramid scheme and we’re tired of holding up the trillionaires.
@lwxflowxwl
September 20, 2025 at 9:55 pm
Yum this is why I go out my way to block and degoogle everything
@Judy-q7u9y
September 20, 2025 at 9:59 pm
I just set it up Google and they said they would not get out done of my business or anything about me .They just lied to me !!¡!!;
@Judy-q7u9y
September 20, 2025 at 10:00 pm
I don’t buy anything on my phone at all ;!!;;;;;
@Judy-q7u9y
September 20, 2025 at 10:01 pm
I think I would rather have AI😢
@Judy-q7u9y
September 20, 2025 at 10:05 pm
I told them I was Hacked the Police have all my information SS,IRS, and my bank account. But it’s all been changed No I didn’t give all my information Thank God ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😢
@akifunmc
September 20, 2025 at 11:51 pm
Better than before Youtube, where the only way to block ads is to go to the kitchen to get a snack.
@kanedateng7604
September 21, 2025 at 12:14 am
Degoogle your phone
@matthewparsons6496
September 21, 2025 at 12:19 am
Internet services are like banking services. You end up paying for them one way or another.
@Starfish2145
September 21, 2025 at 12:48 am
Of course they’re lying
@entropy323
September 21, 2025 at 3:15 am
Google is complicit in Israeli genocide.
@jaa1969jaa
September 21, 2025 at 3:23 am
Google serves a lot of very badly targeted ads at me.
@ETCxMY
September 21, 2025 at 3:58 am
I’ve been using Tutamail and pCloud for years.
@biochill
September 21, 2025 at 5:54 am
Im using private browser mode all the time but some websites are so gullible they rely on cookies. Too many people don’t care („I have nothing to hide“).
@roberttranceedm
September 21, 2025 at 9:04 am
Fingerprinting can be easily blocked. Choose the right browser.
@cinemanuggets24
September 21, 2025 at 10:58 am
I will admit, I hate tech companies but I hate Google the most. Brazen immorality
@Mr1mojo9risin84
September 21, 2025 at 11:35 am
Since I stopped accepting cookies, I haven’t received anymore scam phone calls.
@Astronomynatureandmusic
September 21, 2025 at 2:56 pm
the MAIN problem: everyone else DOES use google. It’s unavoidable!
@juliusmaloney
September 21, 2025 at 5:43 pm
This does seem to be a lot of “obsolete” info when most people have been using Google products for a quarter century. The horse has already bolted. And as someone else noted, most people don’t care, who cares if the info is used for targeted advertising? That said I think Google has signed its own death warrant by introducing AI. Why would I go to Google if I can just open up an AI app and go direct to the source?
@David-hb9ul
September 21, 2025 at 6:28 pm
take my data, just gimme UBI
@VE9911
September 21, 2025 at 8:41 pm
If the product is free, then you are the product.
Facebook? Yes!
@clomok
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 pm
One way to browse more privately is to use KASM. I run KASM in he cloud and use it’s ephemeral browsing capabilities to connect to any weird links, or research interesting things.
@LynetteStinson-i2i
September 21, 2025 at 10:19 pm
Google that’s another problem
@callicordova4066
September 22, 2025 at 12:35 pm
I want to become irrelevant.
@turkeyssr
September 22, 2025 at 12:46 pm
In my lifetime, I saw the break up of AT&T amongst other things. Why isn’t it time for Google to be broken up?
@blueprairiedog
September 22, 2025 at 12:58 pm
When a site asks you if something is a good recommendation, always lie.
@zzz181085
September 22, 2025 at 4:01 pm
YouTube is suppressing this video which is hilarious.
@kasondaleigh
September 23, 2025 at 1:45 am
There is no such thing as privacy any longer.
@Stupidais
September 23, 2025 at 8:48 am
I have actually been wondering how ads haven’t become completely obsolete. I’ve tested giving them access, restricting access, and anywhere in between and no matter what I do Google fails spectacularly at selling me things. For example:
I like video games AND I consume video game content creators on Youtube. I’ve been basically a gaming degenerate for 30+ years. What does Youtube think they will sell me on? Mostly garbage phone games, gatcha games, and other games no “real gamer” is playing.
I consume a lot of music, almost all genres but a LOT of “smart rap”. What does Youtube try to sell me? Goofy mumble rappers and crappy pop music.
Long story short, if companies want to pay google to fail spectacularly at selling me things… go ahead I guess. You’re just wasting your money, lowering my chance of buying your product, and wasting my time when I am on a device/somewhere without ad blockers.
@user-pu2nl4sj4s
September 23, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Google = Genocide
@iedison3839
September 25, 2025 at 4:21 pm
Nothing like getting 3 sets (a pre roll and 2 mid rolls) of 2 unskippable ads while watching a psa about advertiser data tracking smh
@kevinflemming1982
September 26, 2025 at 4:36 am
I’ve got other far more important things to worry about, like my mental health, than some bloody adverts and cookies lol.
@kevinflemming1982
September 26, 2025 at 4:49 am
Have to love people whining about Google, while using YouTube. 😂
@WestlakeConsulting
September 26, 2025 at 9:38 am
I prefer the Ron Swanson approach to internet privacy.
@micah-e4e
September 26, 2025 at 4:03 pm
Dont get me wrong im sure brave still has ur data collected
@kaceybongarzone4977
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 pm
Cheers to more private browsers and you can choose Reject All cookies with websites and I haven’t run into any issues with that..
@tywonellington
September 27, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Google is free everyone. Just making sure you all still remember that when you’re trying to find ways to get around ads.