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2024-01-28 18:00:51 ET
i can say, knowing multiple people here locally who have worked for or adjacent google, that youtube does, in fact, automatically subscribe a certain amount of people to accounts. especially legacy media platforms like CNN, ABC et al who have a very cozy relationship with google / youtube. the algorithm will auto-subscribe you “recommended” channels’ accounts if you watch too much alternative media platforms and also unsubscribe you from the latter. youtube’s CEO has all but admitted they do this herself, too.
my background is in cybersecurity before i got into design. i know too much about this shit, for better or worse. google is an awful company and youtube is a propaganda and addiction engine. when the youtube shorts algorithm programmer recently beat and murdered his wife, suffice it to say i wasn’t surprised.
also all my passwords that i can’t use apple passkey for are just randomized alphanumeric strings. i had a gmail account hacked and stolen from me waaaaaaay back when i was working for myspace chasing after another hacker trying to sell a low user id profile. i learned that lesson then and i’ve never had an account hacked since. youtube just has shitty manipulative practices internally. so do most big tech companies nowadays. no external hackers needed.
all that aside, if a password is stored on a google server it’s extremely easy to get and already belongs to a ton of 3rd parties anyway. so changing a google or gmail password is practically pointless from an actual security standpoint. |
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