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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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[-] rolling_resistance@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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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[-] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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

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