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  • fulcrummed@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.worldFound this in the wild
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    7 days ago

    The tracking is used to identify the source user who shared the link - that is connected in the DB to the user who received and used the link. That connects their two digital footprints as far as the website is concerned. It’s one element that leads to strangely tenuous “people you may know” style lists. If you and the person you share with have totally separate online lives. The moment you share that link - everything YouTube (Google) knows about both of you is connected. If one of you has shared your contact lists, your phone number, address etc is potentially now connected to you even if you’ve never posted it to anything online. It doesn’t take much for someone to be linked to 1000’s of people in a chain reaction of connections started by a single shared link that hasn’t been anonymised.















  • Sadly - now what? This man is going from the only housing, food, “health care” and routine his adult life has ever known, to a society not equipped to help anyone adapt to life within it. He has an intellectual disability and schizophrenia, is likely largely unskilled for today’s workforce. If his representation were to pursue a claim and he were to win a payout, he is probably not equipped to manage that money and would become a target for people wishing to relieve him of it.

    I’m not saying for a moment that he should stay in prison, what I’m saying is that it’s a damning indictment on society, and government priorities that this man will probably be no safer, no less stressed, no more able to thrive and enjoy his later years in life, than if her were to remain in prison. I worry that unless this legal activist is prepared to dedicate years of personal investment of time and energy facilitating this man’s life out in the world, we’re watching a lamb being thrown to the wolves.