Facebook and Google are both a kind of thing that we don't have good language for—a combination surveillance camera, casino, and bad devil sitting on your shoulder. They make money by harvesting attention and selling it to any bidder. The similarity is significant and important
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You might think "hey, no one spends as much time on Google they do on Facebook," but essentially every site on the web is part of Google's surveillance and advertising infrastructure. And YouTube is overtly similar to Facebook in behavior and goals
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An example is worth a thousand words: https://twitter.com/william_fitz/status/976628494204416000 …
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Facebook is worse than Google in the sense that it manipulates you through your ties to other people. But it's not like Google didn't try to do the same. They just failed, and now have to settle for YouTube communities, email, and the web.
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It's frustrating/amazing how much of a free pass YouTube is getting in all the melee right now.
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I don't want to cast aspersions. It's more likely he works at Google because he earnestly believes this.
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YouTube deserves criticism, but it doesn't interpose itself into people's relationships as FB does. It tries to be "a thing", not "the thing".
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