i help moderate r/camcorders and i cannot adequately describe how infuriating it is to my pedantic ass brain when someone comes in and asks how to "digitize" DV tapes. You don't, they're already digital!
And then the top comment is invariably someone suggesting they buy one of those no-name composite-to-usb boxes and absolutely destroy their video. And a part of me realizes the person making that post would probably consider the garbled mess that dongle would deliver to be perfectly adequate, and the proper method to be way too much work, and I feel a little sad.