How Manipulative Is YouTube

It's obvious to know that internet users spend most of their time on watching weird YouTube videos. YouTube has huge influence over the internet and currently is the video platform giant. While Youtube banned in some countries it's not a problem to use vpn to access it. YouTube use lots of tricks to keep their billions of users using their video platform. Every time you watch a video YouTube collects your video browsing data to show you ads which you're interested in. They are doing it automatically because of the artificial intelligence and other tools which probably l don't know. Every time you watch a new video YouTube collects your data to show you another interesting videos related to the videos which you watch. The bad thing about it is that you don't have a privacy at all. Every video you watch, every comment you write directly goes to their database and they can do anything with this data which sounds really scary. I don't also like fact that they took down a lot of programming or other useful tutorials which were useful for me. I remember learning a piano music with just watching a video on YouTube. You can use YouTube to learn cool skills and right now YouTube is one of the best educative places but I think that if we use this platform to watch such a weird videos whic YouTube shows us then we're just wasting our precious time.