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
    32·
    1 year ago

    This is a dumb take. Being behind a paywall means it’s not controlled by Google and its ad network.

    Are these webpages and people just supposed to work for free?

    • the w@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      404 media in particular do great work. They’re all defectors from Motherboard (vice) and I think supporting them is both worthwhile and worth it.

      • rgb3x3@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year 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.

        • JWBananas@startrek.websiteEnglish
          2·
          1 year 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.