As a Russian, fuck those assholes and the shithole they're operating.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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As a non-Russian, what's the problem with them?
Ads, complete lack of privacy, kremlinbots.
It used to be the platform that did one thing good. Build communities. Not it does a lot of things, but all of them badly.
Not to mention that their owners are the main reason why "YouTube works bad, because Google's servers are degrading". Basically, Roscomnadzor (an official government censorship service) has been making YouTube unusable for over a year now to make people switch to VK Video or Rutube (both owned by same entity) whilst pretending that it doesn't. Did it work? According to them, yes. According to reality, however, the vast majority just switched to using VPN.
I'm not Russian either but it's like Russian Facebook with all the problems Facebook has, but under Russian control rather than American. Supposedly even more deeply integrated with intelligence agencies than Facebook is.
It tries to be the only website you ever need to visit so it can always show you as and always track you.