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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
submitted 8 months 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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[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 382 points 8 months ago (74 children)

Ya I'll never stop using ad blockers, the internet is essentially unusable without them. Mine still work on youtube but if the day comes that they don't I'll just stop using it. We need some competition here, things have gotten increasingly anticonsumer and the companies have gotten too comfortable doing and charging whatever they want

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Download newpipe and never use YouTube again.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Can't be used on desktop

[–] isotope@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It somewhat can

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