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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
submitted 2 years 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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[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

If they start showing me this message, I’ll have no reasonable choice except to disable the ad blockers for YouTube. Sadly I’m embedded in the Google world with a gmail account and I use their photos service. I can’t risk losing access to those.

No doubt they’ll roll this anti ad block technology out to their other sites in the future and the internet will suddenly be a bleak, hideous place.

[-] Weslee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

There is a few tampermonkey (extension) scripts that disable the message. This is the one I use;

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/478457-youtube-anti-anti-adblock

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's taken me about 2 years to degoogle as much as I have. I've moved google photos to dropbox (soon NextCloud), gmail to fastmail, search to Kagi, music to Tidal, docs to NextCloud, and (most recently) youtube to Invidious/Freetube. None of it was particularly hard, though switching from gmail took ages. Still using android, but that's next on the chopping block.

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[-] rolling_resistance@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

If it wasn't for all these articles, I wouldn't even know that something changed. Firefox + uBlock works the way it used to.

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[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

We'll start viewing Peertube as a viable option WHEN?

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[-] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 4 points 2 years ago

And cloudflare controls the connectivity.. luckily they're not (yet) evil and are happy just to provide infrastructure.

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