• pemptago@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    But if you pay for YouTube premium you won’t have ads… for the first couple of years until they corner the market, and change the terms of services several times to maximize profits. uBlock and donating to open source FTW. shout out to yt-dlp

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      2 months ago

      Also ad lock blocks ads on all of the platforms you use. YouTube plus just removed them from YouTube… I ain’t paying 20 different places for ad free use when they charge like $15+ each, maybe if it were $1 each for nah they are all greedy.

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        2 months ago

        Good point. And it wouldn’t surprise me if google was still using YTP subscriber viewing data to target them on other platforms and websites. Actually, I’d be surprised if they weren’t doing that.

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      2 months ago

      And they’re cornering several markets, e.g. also the browser markets, which if we let them will make your adblocker no longer work either.

      Don’t use Chrome or Chrome-based browsers people. (So basically, use Firefox.)

      (Yes there are a couple of others too. Do what you want, I’m not your boss.)