Yeah you’d really only say it on the theoretical side of things, I’ve definitely heard it in research and academia but even then people usually point to the particulars of their work first

I don’t really have issues with them aside from the youtube mirrors 🤷‍♂️ and even then libredirect lets you set fallbacks so I just stack them and rarely have problems

When I have to use a big tech platform I use a privacy preserving proxy site like invidious for youtube. The LibRedirect extension for Firefox makes it really easy and has a surprising number of sites it can serve mirrors for

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