Are X and rumble teaming up to save surveillance rather than free speech?
The fight over advertising seems like a bit of tug of war over the real-time data collected by Programmatic advertising.
Would also explain the Google antitrust decision.

@gabriel I've heard that Rumble is actually the most privacy respecting video sharing site right now, not including decentralized networks like PeerTube, provided that you either block the third-party JS or watch the videos via MPV.

It's big investor is Peter Thiel, the guy who co-founded Palantir; literally the largest government contractor for domestic and international spy software in the world (whose customers include the US, UK, Israel, Australia...)

Rumble has censored stuff before, and it seems alright now, but who knows how things will go a year or five years from now. Remember, Google had the unofficial office slogan: "Don't be Evil."

@djsumdog @gabriel Probably should've said "least bad". Of couse, conservative talk show hosts shill it so that's a huge red-flag there, but at least as of now, I can watch their videos via MPV which is why I usually choose the Rumble option when someone uploads to multiple sites.