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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention (futurism.com)

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I have a friend that pays Google a YouTube tax every month... He tells me he wants to support the creators.

I'm just kind of sad for him... I tried to explain direct donations were a million times more effective, but he clearly just doesn't want to learn how to use an adblocker.

This guy is like 30 years old.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Why in the world would you think that someone paying to use a service is a problem? Sure direct donations are more helpful, but that doesn’t run servers to actually distribute the content you’re viewing. Your problem is completely different than what we are discussing about ad blockers.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Do you mean YouTube premium? Old YouTube music because they're different things I think premium includes music actually but you can just have the music subscription.

Youtube music is actually better than something like Spotify for creators, so it's not the worst justification in the world.