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[โ€“] FishFace@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Even if you take YouTube premium they are still farming your data and selling it to third parties.

The big data-farmers like Google aren't selling it to third parties. It's worth far more if kept to themselves and used to build an ad platform.

[โ€“] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

It'd be real nice if people would actually use their brains and realize this.