Discord isn’t an encrypted messenger nor a p2p one so I don’t know exactly why you would take it down instead of taking down people sharing illegal content by yourself.

My confusion with you post is that you say you want it to be hard to find, but at the same time you want it to be “successful”, what do you mean by that? What would make it successful for you?

sorry! bad phrasing. if one is to assume there is no way to 100% hide your identity from google, then at least make it “harder to find”.as in instead of giving google my info on a golden plate it would require a bit more effort. that is what i meant. ideally i would like my content to reach as many people as possible.

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.

i see…thanks for the info!

what is “artificially increasing the ranking of other sites”?