Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.

• sar1n@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except Google is double dipping, making money off of your data while charging for the “privilege”. Fuck all that

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  • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    JW do you know how much money google actually makes off of your data?

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    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even that’s misleading, because Google doesn’t actually sell anyone’s data. It’s not like advertisers buy user data from google. They have a product they want to advertise to a specific audience, and by choosing to advertise on YouTube, they can tell Google to only show these ads to their specific target audience, which YouTube can do, because they know who you are and what you’re interested in.

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  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed. However I still can’t make a good faith argument as to why YouTube should be free. I too prefer not to pay but I never expected that to last forever and we’ve had a good run. I basically got a 15 year free trial and now they want me to pay for it - fair enough (I don’t yet thought)

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• PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do the Google engineers?

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  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No. What’s your point?

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    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then it sounds like everyone is being compensated just fine.

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      • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just a reminder that blocking adblock is contributing to google engineers salary, so you’re arguing to maintain the status quo and not disrupting it.

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      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you want to argue, then make an argument.

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