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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)

submitted 7 months ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

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[-] specfreq@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

I simply open up YouTube+Ublock in Firefox on my smartphone.

I actually like the personalized video recommendations from being signed in sometimes, but I still don't like my data being sold. I use both.

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Same. Firefox +uBlock on mobile. The YouTube app actually kinda sucks. Never used it

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