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Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"??

From Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.software.firefox
Subject Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"??
Date 2025-08-23 16:49 +0000
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:28:40 -0700, Stan Brown wrote :


>> Which is why the fundamental rule of privacy is to NEVER sign into anything
>> you don't have to, and never pay for anything.
> 
> Like most categorical rules, this is nonsense. It's true that "you 
> get what you pay for" is not an infallible guide, but there's a 
> reason why that's a saying everyone knows.

Hi Stan,

You and I both have very high technical degrees, so we're each well aware
that a single sentence summary never encompasses the entirety of reality.

That said, I think we're circling around a deeper point: truisms often
persist because they contain a kernel of truth, even if they oversimplify.
"You get what you pay for" is one of those. It's directionally useful, but
not universally reliable. Plenty of free tools offer tremendous value, and
plenty of paid services fall short. Similarly, "never sign into anything
you don't have to" is a good privacy instinct, but taken literally, it
becomes impractical in today's digital landscape.

Maybe the real takeaway is that categorical advice should be treated like
heuristic useful starting points, but always subject to context and
judgment.

As for the original problem set, I encountered it on the Ukraine war
YouTube channels when the Russian bots attacked en masse, and since then I
have come to an uneasy truce with the YouTube bot-identifying algorithm,
given I have never signed into a YouTube (aka Google) account in my life.

The success here is that I watch any YouTube video I want, without logging
into a Google account & without ever encountering Google-inserted ads.

I must be doing something right, right?

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YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> - 2025-08-19 16:35 +0200
  Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> - 2025-08-19 16:47 +0200
    Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-08-19 07:59 -0700
      Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-19 22:37 +0000
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    Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-19 21:59 +0000
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      Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-19 22:14 +0000
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                Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-22 08:22 +0000
                Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Stan Brown <someone@example.com> - 2025-08-23 08:28 -0700
                Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-23 16:49 +0000
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