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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Adnauseam! Adguard for desktop loaded with anti AdBlock killer! Lifetime license available!

Sorry I have tourette's syndrome

[–] rolling_resistance 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Adnauseam is great, but it also leaves some ads on pages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Strict blocking

[–] _bac -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This works! Firefox + ublock did not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Firefox + ublock definitely works.

[–] _bac 3 points 9 months ago

You are right. I updated ublock and now it works.

[–] crypticthree 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah I just switched back to ff from chrome and YouTube has never sent me their little warning on ff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not always. Adnauseam makes the anti-adblock bullshit think you're clicking on ads.

There's also adguard for desktop which filters ads through a mechanism that's outside of your browser, which makes it much more difficult for things running inside web pages to fuck with it.