Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 11 months agoWhat 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 :/
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
teamevil@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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?