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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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[–] malchior@aussie.zone 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same. It is no longer worth it, I'll be sad to lose my music streaming, but there are other pathways that some may consider unethical.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yarr matey

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's getting harder though, at least in my experience. Circa 2010, it was music and shit everywhere. Now it's slimmer pickin's, it seems.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I've tried torrents but those seemed to all be dead ends, i found another website that uses some backdoor from a streaming service and the file info is actually correct but you get songs 1 by 1. Which takes a lot of time.

[–] kzhe@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

If you just want YTM for free there's beatbump on web and Innertune or ViMusic on android

[–] malchior@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

If only there was a place to buy DRM free music in the file type I want for use in whatever device I want also for movies.