Hello! what is the best setup for creating content without compromising my privacy? i am aware of most opsec stuff but i have some questions:

  • how do i use 2FA without giving YouTube my phone number?
  • how big of an identifier is my voice? should i use a voice filter?

thanks.

  • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    Who are you protecting your privacy against here?

    Because if it’s Google, then why on earth would you want to upload content to YouTube in the first place?

    OK, let’s say you didn’t give them your phone number and masked your voice. If you’re not connecting over a VPN or something like Tor, they still have your IP address.

    OK, you now use a VPN, but your browser can still be very effectively fingerprinted and that fingerprint could be nearly unique.

    And so on and so on. And this isn’t even going into metadata in & about your video files that could be used to fingerprint the system they were done on.

    • hopefull_cottonball@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      3 months ago

      Who are you protecting your privacy against here?

      viewers and potential malicious hackers.

      Because if it’s Google, then why on earth would you want to upload content to YouTube in the first place?

      I understand everyone wanting me to use PeerTube, but i can’t see my content being successful there.

      And so on and so on. And this isn’t even going into metadata in & about your video files that could be used to fingerprint the system they were done on.

      i confess i didnt consider this. but i think there are tools to remove all metadata from videos. in the end, i dont need to hide myself from google or anything of the sort. i just want my information to be harder to find.

      • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        If you want to protect your privacy against viewers of your videos, how you upload them to YouTube makes more or less no difference. With this scenario the question is how much information are you leaking in your content, and that’d cover everything from writing style idiosyncracies to anything that can be used to potentially identify eg. where you live and so on.

        If you’re worried about “malicious hackers”, then the question is who are these potential hackers you’re protecting against? Would they be attacking Google or you? If it’s you, then how you upload things to YT is again completely meaningless. If they’re attacking Google and get far enough to actually exfil data, what they’d actually be able to get out of it is anybody’s guess. Using a VPN and a throwaway email is probably good enough in any case.