How privacy friendly is Odysee ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Stomata@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Few days ago I found odysee. I saw it on grayjay.
I'm trying to use YouTube as less as possible. I found some of creators I follow from yt here. How do you rate it for privacy.

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[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 months ago

Slightly moreso than YouTube, but you should really use Librarian or the LBRY app.

Also, be warned that Odysee is alt-tech.

[-] promitheas@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago

Whats alt-tech?

[-] flx 12 points 2 months ago

There's a lot of right wing content

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Odysee IS the video platform of LBRY. It's currently the best alternative to YT

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

Odysee is A video platform of LBRY. There is also LBRY for desktop and Android, and Librarian is an alternative frontend.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 months ago

I consider odysee to be a longer term pump'n'dump scam for the reasons outlined here:

https://slrpnk.net/post/11302039/9749921

Personally I wouldn't place much trust in them.

[-] sonalder@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

It's not that great privacy wise. Probably not as bad as YouTube but unfortunately it doesn't seems to be their priority.

[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

IIRC it uses BitTorrent (like Peertube), so your IP address will be shared

[-] ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Odysee is dominated by far-right people, a lot of the content is straight up fascistic and comments usually suck

Still, I follow some creators I like there through Grayjay, but no interaction with Odysee

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