You mean "confidentiality", not privacy.
Just the metadata related to whether you personally, with full name and surname, have a Signal account and how much you use it might be considered a privacy breach already.

And please, make ISO 8601 format for dates a mandatory universal standard...

Yes. The thing is that then you are no longer anonymously using yt-dlp.
The next step would be trying to detect that case.. maybe adding captchas when there's a suspicion. It'll be a cat and mouse situation.

I wouldn't be surprised if they start doing something like what Twitter did and require login to view the content.

The thing is.. they are not really disagreeing if they are not saying something that conflicts or challengues the argument.

They just wrongly believe they disagree. That's why it's stupid.

If you don’t like it, vote with your wallet

I'd say more: don't use Youtube if you don't like it.

It's very hypocritical to see how everyone bashes at Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Uber, etc. and yet they continue using it as if life would be hell without the luxury of those completelly non essential services. Just let them die then..

I think it was Mandrake Linux for me.
It no longer exists though. ...I guess I'm old.

Aah, so any business which accept crypto must KYC every one of their customers.

I don't understand this. Why would the customers need to be KYC? "payments to wallets operated by providers" implies that the restriction is in the receiving wallet, not in the one sending the money (the customer), as far as understand.

someone painting him as a morally righteous

That someone said: "Assange is a bit of a scumbag"

The only praise he gave to him was saying "his efforts for freedom of information should not land him in US torture prisons like many others."

Which does not conflict with anything you said.

Note that "freedom of information" is totally compatible with "picking and choosing" the manner in which you exercise that freedom.

Assagne (like any other journalist) should have freedom of "picking and choosing" what facts he wants to expose, as long as they are not fabrications. If they are fabrications then that would be when he'll lose my respect...