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

submitted 1 year 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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[-] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sends requests to websites that can identify you

What requests? I though that only information that the browser gives to website regarding dark theme is that your preferred-color-scheme is now dark.

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That request can be used for fingerprinting, however.

https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint

[-] AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's one of the data points they use to fingerprint you. They only need several to get a reliable idea of who you are as you move from site to site.

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