YouTube isn’t happy you’re using ad blockers — and it’s doing something about it::undefined

  • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What kinda bothers me is that I recognize that something like YouTube is expensive to run and just switching to an alternative isn’t super feasible. I would be more than happy to pay for a service like YouTube that I use everyday. HOWEVER, not with their bullshit double dipping. If I am paying a company like Google to use their services, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that their should be an expectation or mechanism where that means I am not just no longer served ads, but that all tracking and data collection about my account(s) are stopped.

    That’s never going to happen though :/

    • teamevil@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You mean like cable that we paid for and got ads or like your cell phone/ISP provider charging you while selling your data simultaneously?

      • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I never said I thought it was tennable or that any system like I described has ever actually existed. Wishes and dreams, ya know?

    • pewnit@lemmings.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s a fair criticism. I personally don’t care about it because I gave up on the idea of having any privacy ages ago but I get that people may not be happy with that.

      If I were to play devil’s advocate, I can say that the data they collect is important for serving you the right videos but let’s be real here, Google definitely uses it to serve you ads everywhere else