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"I have a hard time believing that YouTube would be unable to keep business afloat without the revenue generated by behavioral-tracking advertisements,” EFF’s Daly Barnett told @theregister. “It’s a lazy and deliberately malicious move on their part."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/youtube_ad_blocking/

YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids

EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move'
Thomas Claburn (The Register)
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David Bishop
David Bishop
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This is just going to end in an arms race, and I'm putting my money on ublock origin to win.
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Jeff, Cat Herder
Jeff, Cat Herder
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I guess I'll soon never watch a YouTube video again (unless the 3rd party apps I use engineer a way around their sabotage).
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Olle Gladsø
Olle Gladsø
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What happened to "don't be evil".
It is high time that YouTube gets some real competition.
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Karl Auerbach
Karl Auerbach
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Google sez: "We want to emphasize that our terms don’t allow third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership..."

That is pure hog wash. I've got some videos on YT. Google plasters ads in front of and on top of 'em. And I get nada, zip, nothing.

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aproposnix
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can someone with coding skills, please help develop a peertube client for AndroidTV (esp. something similar to SmartTube)? Please.

We need federated alternatives to YouTube.

#peertube #degoogle

#PeerTube #degoogle
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RickTimmis
RickTimmis
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@eff: Recently the amount of Ads on platforms like YouTube has been driving me mad. I realise it cost money to run these platforms, but I wish they'd get better targeting. No!! "I Really am NOT interested in currency trading Forex!!!"
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Sebastian/S.T. Veje
Sebastian/S.T. Veje
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Problem is, despite Google trying to make us believe otherwise, YouTube is not, never were, and never should be a service like Netflix or Spotify. YouTube is a public platform where anyone can post and share videos, from private individuals to professionals. Ideally YouTube should not be controlled by any single company or nation, nor should it be for-profit.
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