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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 11 months ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I actually used to have all ad blockers turned off for YouTube because I wanted to support all my favorite creators on there. But then YouTube took away the daily suggestions because I don't let it track my history. So I said "fuck it" and turned all the adblockers back on.

Now I just support the creators I care to via Nebula and their various Patreons.

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

took away the daily suggestions because I don’t let it track my history

the funny thing is, if you go to a non logged in session, the suggestion page works fine. It was such an arbitratry grab for the user to consent to them collecting your data. I just bookmarked the subscriptions page and only go there now

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I hadn't thought of that. I'll have to try it. It gets boring just looking at my subscriptions.