Boycotting as they dump your private info into the AI is exactly what they want, we need to boycott BEFORE the 13th in order to prevent the data breach, they want to look like they listened after it is too late to keep you safe
Just to clarify that the boycott is about not letting YT have your ID and photo scan. They already have all the information to feed to the AI, and I'm pretty sure even deleting my account and asking for my data to be deleted wouldn't do anything, because that takes like 30 days to take effect. The whole thing is a ploy to get users to fork over their personal identification and have that tied to their watch habits - INCREDIBLY VALUABLE INFO if you are, let's say, a company that can sell that information to whatever government wants to increase the control of their population. We've already seen the power of YouTube and TikTok to shape narratives and change people's opinions in social and political matters, enough to shift elections and organize protests. If the government knows you watch Breadtube on a weekly basis, they can use that to frame you when someone who maybe looks like you sets fire to a car during a protest. If they know you lile First-Person Shooter games, they can serve you only games where you play as the military, they can boost channels that are patriotic, they can even create channels with cute ladies talking about how they love military men, so you start associating military service with fun and love and profit and are more willing to sign up. It's information that allows for unprecedented levels of manipulation of the public.
That being said: FreeTube (https://freetubeapp.io/) and Invidious (https://invidious.io/) are both resources that let you watch YT videos without giving it views. They have been around for a while and are a measure for online privacy since way before all this crap went down. And YT-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) allows you to download audio and video, in case you want to create a backlog for the duration of the boycott.
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