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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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[-] disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Spread the word to install firefox based browser, use different frontends to block youtube ads in browser, Invidious and use piped youtube apps on android to block youtbe ads: Newpipe

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[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Internet go brrr

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Literally the reason I started regularly using Firefox

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[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

they can cry harder

[-] RiQuY@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is there any real free alternative? And I mean free refered to freedom, I know PeerTube exists but finding a good/known instance to upload content knowing that the instance won't go down is hard.

EDIT: I found maker.tube and hardlimit, the first one looks promising.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Nebula, maybe? Many of my breadtube creators tell me to see their expanded content there.

[-] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Opera GX + uBlock + ABP. I stopped seeing this shit a long time ago. (Opera de-googles where necessary, and has its own store. You can still install from other chrome stores, if something is not available in theirs)

Frankly though, Alphabet needs to start being made accountable for their own "de-privacy" behaviour, in the name of their own profits.

And on a side note, is it just me or did 404media just came out of nowhere, and is spamming "news" posts. I've read a few of them, and they seem more like opinion pieces, and less factual. They really seem to have little supporting evidence, proper content (the meat, proof, details) and the complete post content is paywalled.

Defederated world, can we please prioritise non-paywalled sites over monetised ones?

[-] Cyberpunk3000@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Why uBlock + ABP though? Isn't uBlock alone enough? And why not Firefox instead of Opera as it's also based on Chromium?

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[-] DrMango@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Iirc adblock plus has been known to get bribed to allow certain ads through. I'm struggling to remember the details, but there was some controversy with them a while back. If you have ublock you don't also need ABP, just update your filters on those sites that ublock "doesn't work" on

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