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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every other post about Ad blocking has someone pitching Brave.

Brave has experienced some controversies over time, including the CEO having problematic political views; alleged sales of copyrighted data for AI model training; auto-completing typed-in URLs to affiliate links that generate revenue for Brave; content creators receiving unsolicited donations they couldn’t collect; and automatically installing their VPN service without the user’s consent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Brave is also, you know, run by probably one of the worlds most evil people.

Peter Thiel.

The guy who is part of a group of people (including JD Vance) who wants to hook you up (using bff elon's neuralink) and use your body as a biofuel source instead of just killing you. As a "more humane alternative to genocide"

PS. This isn't a joke.

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas