Acceptable in the UK then, I guess?

I’m not sorry and I will do it again

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.

But it is, and it always has been. Absurdly complexly layered statistics, calculated faster than a human could.

Well sure, but as someone else said even heat is statistics. Saying “ML is just statistics” is so reductionist as to be meaningless. Heat is just statistics. Biology is just physics. Forests are just trees.

iT’s JuSt StAtIsTiCs

Yesss, making the world worse for everyone, nice.

No wait, that’s the opposite of nice. That’s terrible.

Iran, too.

Calling Republicans Talebangelicals isn’t all that inaccurate

And it’s not like I’m Jewish or a leftist; surely the brownshirt leopards won’t eat my face

Ahh, good 'ol Perry Bible Fellowship. It’s weird that I’ve been reading these for almost half my life now.

Spain did what