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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I also pay for YouTube. I just don't normally bring it up because it usually results in a lot of rather unpleasant replies.

It's fascinating, really.

Google gets a lot of hate for being a data collection behemoth. The whole "if you aren't paying, you are the product" thing. And rightfully so.

And pirates love to say that if companies would just charge a reasonable rate for an easy-to-use service, then they would just pay instead of pirating.

But when it comes to YouTube, a lot of people seem to want to have it both ways.