People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube's anti-ad blocking efforts.
  • @TheTimeKnifeEnglish
    98•7 months ago

    Youtube is a perfect example of why ad blockers exist. They use ridiculous ad volumes and spy on their users for data to sell.

        • @[email protected]English
          0•7 months ago

          Sure and Google is not a data broker. Look at how good uses your data they are transparent about it. And your link talks about apps selling data.

        • @powerful_peanutEnglish
          0•7 months ago

          the linked article doesn’t describe getting data from Google, but getting data from grindr and other apps. Grindr is notorious for this kind of thing and makes it easy to locate users…in fact its the main feature of the app so its impossible to fix.

          There are different levels of privacy. Many of the issues with Google are theoretical or philosophical, but location broadcasting apps like grindr are clear and present dangers to your privacy.

        • @[email protected]English
          -1•7 months ago

          Google owns YouTube and the AdSense advertising network. They don’t need to sell the data to advertisers because they are the advertiser. It’s more valuable for them to just hoard that for forever and use it for ad targeting.