Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

Google’s anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

  • @rgb3x3@beehaw.org
    2•8 months ago

    I pay for YouTube and I think people need to stop complaining so much about ads if they’re not willing to support the infrastructure or the creators they likely watch hours and hours of content from.

    I also think Google is charging too much and should decouple music from videos, but that’s another subject.

    • JWBananasEnglish
      2•8 months ago

      I also pay for YouTube. I just don’t normally bring it up because it usually results in a lot of rather unpleasant replies.

      It’s fascinating, really.

      Google gets a lot of hate for being a data collection behemoth. The whole “if you aren’t paying, you are the product” thing. And rightfully so.

      And pirates love to say that if companies would just charge a reasonable rate for an easy-to-use service, then they would just pay instead of pirating.

      But when it comes to YouTube, a lot of people seem to want to have it both ways.