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Invidious report of the same(ish) problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4045#issuecomment-1674373088

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[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They’re making plenty of profit selling all of our data  and getting ad revenue from the 95%+ of other users who aren’t blocking them.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd wager that it's closer to 99.999%.

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah since i don't have any figures I just went sort of conservative with the estimate

[–] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly, you either get my data or my money. That's how I feel about every service nowadays, I don't think its unethical to subvert payment requirements when they have been selling my privacy for years.